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Running electrics on leisure battery
Posted: 19 Apr 2010, 10:00
by sharkjazz
Morning, wasn't sure whether this should go in the technical forum, but as it isn't really that technical have decided on general, please move if wrong.
Anyway, whenever am parked up am always cautious about using the electrics as to not run the battery down in the middle of no where, but need I be?
I assume that if using the stereo, with the engine off, it should be coming from the lesiure battery. After that that been drained, would the stereo stop, or would it then move on to the normal battery, thus draining the all battery sources and mean no-go in the morning?
cheers
Re: Running electrics on leisure battery
Posted: 19 Apr 2010, 10:19
by Headley18
You would have to have the radio a long time before it flattened the leisure battery (depending on the condition of the battery of course) My kids had a playstation & TV running from an inverter off the 110 amph leisure batt. and they managed full to flat in 9 hours. The leisure and starter batteries are independant, one will not pull down the over (unless you have a faulty relay
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Re: Running electrics on leisure battery
Posted: 19 Apr 2010, 10:22
by horns
Unless your wiring has been modified, its likely that your stereo is running from the starter battery, not the leisure battery...
Re: Running electrics on leisure battery
Posted: 19 Apr 2010, 10:26
by sharkjazz
Thanks for the replies.
I guess I will need to have a look and run some tests with the van on the drive rather than some deserted track
Re: Running electrics on leisure battery
Posted: 19 Apr 2010, 11:50
by 1664
If you have a van with blade fuses then the radio is normally off the starter battery via fuse No 3 along with the cigarette lighter and internal van courtesy/door open lights. Pull the fuse and see if it goes off (although the radio will lose it's memory and you'll have to re-tune all the stations again afterwards)
Re: Running electrics on leisure battery
Posted: 19 Apr 2010, 13:41
by albertramsbottom
sharkjazz wrote:Morning, wasn't sure whether this should go in the technical forum, but as it isn't really that technical have decided on general, please move if wrong.
Anyway, whenever am parked up am always cautious about using the electrics as to not run the battery down in the middle of no where, but need I be?
I assume that if using the stereo, with the engine off, it should be coming from the lesiure battery. After that that been drained, would the stereo stop, or would it then move on to the normal battery, thus draining the all battery sources and mean no-go in the morning?
cheers
Just disconect one of your LB terminals, if the sterio still works then its off the starter
