15/6/2025

A good start to the week, with all the battery cables now recovered and ready to fit.  A good find by Ian on eBay was three replacement toggle switches for the control box top panel.  I wasted a bit of time playing with the ammeter and various shunts, then fitted the nearside battery box, after spending some time hoovering underneath the bus so I could work there.   The offside battery box was next, but despite having trial fitted it before, opening in the floor needed relieving.  A brief hiccup occurred when I suffered a vertigo attack whilst under the bus, trying to feed the battery cable through to the cab.  Progress was thus slow thereafter, I made an extension board for the positive cable but am weighing up the pros and cons of using it.  I think a better plan would be to fit a battery isolator switch, which I have ordered.