Bart
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So after 2 weeks away in our 1st trip out in our new Motorhome "Wendy" it all went great ...yes Untill it came to getting of the ferry at home in Ireland.
Went to start the Mh after the 2 hrs crossing and ... .......
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Yip cab battery flat as a pancake...so they had to get their jump start chargers out to get us going ..
Through out our 15000 mile journey we hardly would of used the cab battery much . And before the ferry we had driven 2 hrs to get to cairnryan.
OK so I left the side lights on on the Mh for the 2 hrs crossing . Along with the radio on mute . And the fridge on battery ( but doesn't the latter use the hab batteries ) ?
The hab batteries are fine they are 3 x new 130 ah batteries charged by a sterling b2b charger .. 120 ah and that worked great for us ..2 weeks and not hooked up once .. atm I have far to much hab battery power as they hardly dropped at all in voltage.. but I need that xtra for when I install an inverter.
ANYWAY back to the dead cab battery .. at home now once I stopped the Mh and went to the hab control panel ..after a few mins it said 9.9v
Could the side lights being on for 2 hrs along with the radio muted and fridge if applicable drain my cab battery to that level ?
Now I'm home and it's on the ehu using the mh charger to charge the battery
PS not once during our holiday did I switch the charger at the control panel so that it charged cab battery .. as tbh I never thought about it once.
Went to start the Mh after the 2 hrs crossing and ... .......
...........
.........
Yip cab battery flat as a pancake...so they had to get their jump start chargers out to get us going ..
Through out our 15000 mile journey we hardly would of used the cab battery much . And before the ferry we had driven 2 hrs to get to cairnryan.
OK so I left the side lights on on the Mh for the 2 hrs crossing . Along with the radio on mute . And the fridge on battery ( but doesn't the latter use the hab batteries ) ?
The hab batteries are fine they are 3 x new 130 ah batteries charged by a sterling b2b charger .. 120 ah and that worked great for us ..2 weeks and not hooked up once .. atm I have far to much hab battery power as they hardly dropped at all in voltage.. but I need that xtra for when I install an inverter.
ANYWAY back to the dead cab battery .. at home now once I stopped the Mh and went to the hab control panel ..after a few mins it said 9.9v
Could the side lights being on for 2 hrs along with the radio muted and fridge if applicable drain my cab battery to that level ?
Now I'm home and it's on the ehu using the mh charger to charge the battery
PS not once during our holiday did I switch the charger at the control panel so that it charged cab battery .. as tbh I never thought about it once.