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Originally Posted by dencol
Hi,
Personally I have no idea what I am doing 'yet', a neighbor, retired electrician saw me looking confused holding the two wires from the meter and took pity on me (did try to explain how to use the meter but still worried about sticking wires into area I know little about). Sorted the battery out found I can charge it from the hook up so should not happen in future, but at the back of my mind was something about various power drains and tried to check various ideas whilst still had the neighbours attention, when we disconnected the ariel booster (the control panel switches were off at the time) apparently the power drain dropped slightly. The van is due back for some guarantee work so will mention this to the mechanic see what they say.
Did think about a small solar panel to trickle charge the battery via the cigarette lighter but don’t think this will work as the lighter only powered when the ignition is on? may buy the neighbour a pint or two and ask him to check.
Must be honest had not thought about the alarm making that much difference, yet one more learning experience.  |
Hi, Sorry for your troubles Dencol but hope you have it sorted now. When I bought a new motorhome recently the supplier said he would not install an alarm because he said it would drain the main battery, because we do not use our vans like our cars, driving every day of the week and our car batteries are being charged during this driving time. Maybe if you have your van parked up during winter and if it's not too much bother, take it out for a run/spin, even go shopping with your wife
and that's a whole lot better than running the engine in your driveway or wherever you are parked. Hope this helps. And by the way I have an alarm fitted in my van,
Decmac