Bongo Fury

I'd try holding the off button first mate, see if you can get into the habit of it...I eventually did! The sony unit has gotta be better than the goodmans?

I'm not so sure about it being the radio. I've left them on for days without flattening a battery, although it was a long time ago before all the fancy displays they have nowadays.

It's gotta be worth a try though before pulling fuses,and swapping stuff over surely john? At least that can then be ruled out from further investigations.

ccrobins wrote:last weekend i followed pippins instructions to move the interior lights and radio from the normal battery to the regular and i thought all was ok but this evening i have realised leisure battery is discharging itself

Are you going to the "Hill of Oaks" meeting at Windermere? I can take a look then........

SD

Radios differ.
My previous radio, a VR took 200mA when it was switched off unless the power was removed from the ignition wire. I had to make a work around to use the radio without the ignition on.
My present radio (an ancient Panasonic) take 7mA which is no problem.

The work around was a pushbutton that connected power from the leisure battery to the radio ignition wire. I left the radio "switched on" at the radio and switched it off and on via the pushbutton.

Dave

Aethelric wrote:Radios differ.
I left the radio "switched on" at the radio and switched it off and on via the pushbutton.

Dave

That's a good idea! Did you employ a simple switch that effectively cut the circuit?

bigdaddycain wrote:It's gotta be worth a try though before pulling fuses,and swapping stuff over surely john? At least that can then be ruled out from further investigations.

Indeed it is Ste I haven't got a clue, but I know a radio doesn't (maybe didn't??) use much power at all.

slightly off topic but i had a radio replaced by Peugeot a few years ago on a 206 it was draining the battery and causing other probs as well. it was eventually put as a recall for the model of 206 that i had.

francophile1947 wrote:

bigdaddycain wrote:It's gotta be worth a try though before pulling fuses,and swapping stuff over surely john? At least that can then be ruled out from further investigations.

Indeed it is Ste I haven't got a clue, but I know a radio doesn't (maybe didn't??) use much power at all.

Nor should a faulty striplight tube john... I think we'd all have a shock (pun not intended ) if we actually knew what electrical items (be they automotive or domestic) used on stand by.

daveblueozzie wrote:slightly off topic but i had a radio replaced by Peugeot a few years ago on a 206 it was draining the battery and causing other probs as well. it was eventually put as a recall for the model of 206 that i had.

It's not so much a case of the stereo's being faulty dave, it's more a case (with regards to this subject) Of the surprising amount of electricity used when the radio's are left on stand by,it does of course alter from brand to brand, stereo to stereo.

Remember that time when your stereo was accidentally switched on? You had a flat L/B as a consequence,doubling that amount of time to flatten that battery constitutes your radio being left on stand by.

well after some head scratching last night i took out the sony and replaced it with the goodmans - the result this morning is that the leisure battery has the same charge in as last night so a result - however i also put the sony in the land rover last night and now this morning the battery is dead ! now that adds to more confusion as teh land rovers radio only works with the ignition on so the issue is not down to not turning the radio off correctly - i suspect the sony is faulty and as bongo has been off the road for winter i havent noticed the issue as the battery has been disconnected

nothings easy !

however i also put the sony in the land rover last night and now this morning the battery is dead !

I think you've found the cause of the flat battery, it could be related to the Sony.
I found this on an Alfa forum: "A friend had mystery discharging problems on a Renault and it turned out to be the new Sony radio. There are resistors on the back of the radio that draw 1-2 millivolts continually, in order to maintain the programmed memory and clock. If these fail, then the radio will draw 12v."
And this on a caravan forum: The only thing that is on constantly is the Sony radio 'memory' that could possibly drain the battery."
And this on a Corsa forum: "I've got the sony xplod HU and i had the same problem. I used to leave the face in at nite but folded down and that was drawing power from it so now i take the face off at nite and it works fine. The garage tried to give me some rubbish about there been two live wires and that was the reason cos there was a constant feed of elec... I think you could find they're right, I believe you need to swap two lives wires on the back of the HU. One is a permanant live, the other works when your ignition is on."

Thanks Doone - you have done your homework !

One thing I'm curious about (I may have missed the point earlier in the thread, sorry if so) is why did the Sony so obviusly flatten your leisure battery and yet it didn't flatten your starter battery before you did the fusebox/wiring mods?

its been off the road all winter with the battery disconnected apart from when i turned it over - just getting everything ready for a glorious summer of camping hence why the problem has only just shown itself - just coincidence with the wiring i think