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PersonDianne1w
12/8/2012 at 10:12am
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Help. Just bought a 1994 lunar sunbeam. It seems to have everything ( we think). There is a battery but what do you do with it? How does it charger? What is it for? As you must guess we are complete novices to all this lol. Help!!

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Persondenis schindler
12/8/2012 at 12:05pm
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battery are for light waterpump somtime ignision for heater and three way frige not recamened can be chargerd from car engine when driving to site, by relay when on site charge by electrick hook up  when  swiched on at control panel,

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the leisure battery can be used when there is no electric hookup on your site, to run lights, water pump etc, if your going to rough camp without hookup then I would suggest checking the leisure battery, maybe need a new one, but if you use electric on site it dont really matter, all will run on the electric, the leisure battery will normally be charged when van is being driven, and when hooked up


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It wont run your fridge though! If you are intending to wild camp, id say at least get yours checked, and maybe even get a new large amp one.

Though, the solar-panel/inverter brigade will no doubt be along soon to baffle you further in this respect.


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Thanks for all that info. Slowly getting our head round all this

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It's not advisable to connect the caravan up to a 240 mains supply without a leisure battery being connected too as there's nothing to control the 12 volt feed which could eventually damage the onboard battery charger. It's very much the same as having a solar panel without a controller installed as the electrical feedback can damage the solar panel. This has been a costly mistake for a few in the past only to find out the hard way but the best policy is if you ask a qualified auto electrical technician who should give the same advice.


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Right, first of all check the leisure battery voltage when the engine is running. It should be about 13.5 Volts.
If it is, then the battery is most likely duff. If it's not then.....

check the inline fuses for the leisure battery. These could be nearly anywhere. Check the wiring back to the split charge relay. Check the voltage into the split charge relay (assuming that's what's fitted although it might be a diode.) and the voltage out of it. Should be the same with the engine running ie. about 13.5 V.

I have had one occasion on my Talbot when the wire to the relay got corroded and stopped the charging.



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