pelliott1954
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- Sep 16, 2010
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Hi All,
I have a 2007 Autotrail Cheyenne 635SE, only purchased late last year and only used once, had it standing all Winter and had it on charge most of the time to keep Batts charged up.
I took it out for a Drive last week and parked up for an hour at a friends house and when I went back the system was showing the leisure battery dead flat, it wouldn't even power one light.
I did notice once when first learning about the systems that the Display over the door showed a Battery drain of 5 or 6 amps even with nothing switched on, I pressed the midddle right hand arrow on the display and the unit recallibrated itself and seemed ok.
I have had the battery checked and have added another 85 amp battery in parallel and have just noticed that although the battery is showing 11.9 Volts, it also shows a drain of 2 to 3 amps with only the 12v lights on, is this too high a drain??? what is normal for three internal lights?
Also is it normal for the display to sometimes need recalibrating from a minus figure back to nil when all is switched off?? and lastly the battery amperage moves to a positive figure when I connect the cable to the mains, am I right in assuming this is the chraging rate??
Can anyone help please, I am still very much a novice!!!
Paul
I have a 2007 Autotrail Cheyenne 635SE, only purchased late last year and only used once, had it standing all Winter and had it on charge most of the time to keep Batts charged up.
I took it out for a Drive last week and parked up for an hour at a friends house and when I went back the system was showing the leisure battery dead flat, it wouldn't even power one light.
I did notice once when first learning about the systems that the Display over the door showed a Battery drain of 5 or 6 amps even with nothing switched on, I pressed the midddle right hand arrow on the display and the unit recallibrated itself and seemed ok.
I have had the battery checked and have added another 85 amp battery in parallel and have just noticed that although the battery is showing 11.9 Volts, it also shows a drain of 2 to 3 amps with only the 12v lights on, is this too high a drain??? what is normal for three internal lights?
Also is it normal for the display to sometimes need recalibrating from a minus figure back to nil when all is switched off?? and lastly the battery amperage moves to a positive figure when I connect the cable to the mains, am I right in assuming this is the chraging rate??
Can anyone help please, I am still very much a novice!!!
Paul