100Ah Bluetooth Lithium Leisure Battery

100Ah Bluetooth Lithium Leisure Battery: a 100Ah lithium iron phosphate battery with Bluetooth monitoring of every cell from your phone.

Lithium leisure batteries with a built in battery management system, rated cycle life and the continuous discharge current stated, because that decides whether the battery can run an inverter. This part is not van specific, and the listing says where the mounting position matters.

Specification and fitment

• Fits: Transit, Transit Custom, Sprinter, Crafter and Transporter builds, and most other panel vans
• Van body: not van specific
• Years: current range
• Specification: 100Ah at 12.8V, about 1216 watt hours usable, rated for 4000 cycles
• Quality: grade A LiFePO4 cells with a built in battery management system
• Power draw: continuous discharge up to 100 amps
• Wiring: fuse sized to the discharge rating as close to the terminal as possible
• Installation time: about 1 hour
• Regulations: no reclassification or approval is affected, but tell your insurer it is fitted
• Weight: about 11 kg
• Warranty: ten years on the cells, with the battery management system covered for five

What arrives

• Battery
• Terminal bolts
• Manual

Fitting

Lithium iron phosphate batteries weigh about half as much as lead acid for the same usable capacity and can be run much flatter without damage. They must not be charged below freezing, which is why the self heating versions exist and why they are worth it in a van that is used in winter. They also need a charger and a DC to DC charger with a lithium profile. Conversions are heavy. Batteries, water, furniture and insulation can add 500 to 800 kg, and a van that starts at 3.5 tonnes gross can end up overweight before anyone has packed a bag. Every listing states its weight, and it is worth weighing the empty van at a public weighbridge before the build begins. Tell your insurer about the conversion as it progresses, not afterwards. Since 2019 the DVLA has been strict about reclassifying vans as motor caravans on the V5C, and most specialist insurers will cover a converted van as a camper whatever the V5C says, provided they know what is in it. We supply and fit camper conversion parts for panel vans, and we build and live in our own. We are not Ford, Mercedes-Benz or Volkswagen and are not appointed by them; the van names describe fitment. Everything here is chosen for vans that get used all year, including the British winter, and we say plainly where a cheaper part would do the job.

Which version to buy

Battery Only is the battery on its own. With Fitting Kit is with a fused cable kit, terminal covers and a mounting bracket sized for it.