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as we have no room to remove the seating out of the motorhome over the winter months i leave them stood up with an old fired heater on low just to keep the van above freezing etc, that parts ok.
went to move the van this morning to clean it and the engine battery was flat meaning the alarms were down etc (not good, not happy)
i thought that if the van was on hook up then a trickle charge went also into the engine battery
on the panel i had the leisure battery selected, so therefore in light of this do i need to occasionally switch from leisure to engine to keep them both topped up
any help would be greatly appreciated.
kindest regards
keith
ps it has not helped this morning by the fact that the hose came off the tap and i got soaked. (DEFFO NOT A HAPPY MOTOR HOMER THIS MORNING LOL)
On my Autotrail I have to select which battery to charge from the control panel.
It defaults to the leisure battery and then when I press the battery button on the panel it switches to the engine battery. (LED Lights up)
What I have noticed is if the battery gets to flat the system wont recharge it (I think it looks for a certain minimum voltage), when this happens I use an external charger for an hour or so then switch to the system charger.
______________________________________________________________ Barry
thats what i thought but wouldnt u think there would be a trickle charge that fed in the other one not selected or is that too hard for the manufacturers to work out
I fitted a batterymaster which is primarily connected to the leisure battery so that the charge goes to the leisure battery first, once that is charged it then trickle charges the vehicle battery, the vehicle battery can never drain the leisure battery or vice versa.
Cost is about £70, you can get them from ODB or Vanbitz, and it is straightforward to fit, or you can have it fitted of course.
Simple way of stopping that happening, you leave the battery set to leisure and then any spare is fed through without touching anything!
Ours is set up with solar panel to provide the current for charging - it did that successfully throughout last winter in Devon and is doing the same here in France (OK we tend to have more sun here than the Cotswalds but the panel is pointed where it picks up sun for a lot of the day....... )
The vehicle alarm system does drain the battery quite a bit - many people have reported on here that after about 2 - 3 weeks the vehicle battery is flat if they leave the alarm on without some auxiliary charging being supplied.
I just connected a wire with lighter socket plugs to the engine and leisure batteries both plug have fuses in them and all batteries are kept charged by my solar panels.
It would work the same for your charger. You will find that there is no live outlet on the cab with the engine turned off, so you may have to fit another outlet on the engine battery.
Andy
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