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My stereo has started switching on and off every couple of seconds. What could be causing this? What should I be checking? It runs off the leisure battery under the passenger seat and has it's own fuses

Any help would be greatly appreciated

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Flat leisure battery?

Mine does this when the battery is "empty".
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The sound on mine switches off just leaving flashing lights. Looked in the manuel and he says it's a built in protection from excessive damp.
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loose live connection, fuse connection or a poor earth
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Titus A Duxass wrote:Flat leisure battery?

Mine does this when the battery is "empty".

mine does this too

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my one is the same on damp mornings but when the cab gets warm its ok
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Most likely a flat battery but could also be a short somewhere in the speaker circuit. Would either be the wires to the speakers of the actual speakers themselves.
Some stereos have this as a built in safety feature to prevent the amp from being damaged.
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Sounds like its not getting enough power from the battery. The radio microphones do that at work on out door gigs when the generator the gear is running on starts to reach its limit.

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