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i think ive xxxxxx my battery
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:09 am
by daveblueozzie
fitted a leisure battery on tuesday last week went to the bash on wednesday cool box running a bit tooo long i think, by friday dead leisure battery, now, dont think its taking a charge,, any comments as to how low your supposed to run the battery and is there a way to stop this happening again apart from the obvious of not having the cooler on all the time
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:55 am
by pippin
A cool box will flatten a battery within 24 hours.
If you did not drive the Bongo at all during the Bash, then it will not have received any charge.
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:35 am
by Mark & Shelly
That would flatten it daveblue,but shouldn't harm your battery - thats the point of having a leisure batt.
If it's not charging could you have blown the fuse in your split circuit, easy to do when the L. batt. is flat, what fuse rating did you use?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:16 am
by dp bradford
Mark & Shelly wrote:That would flatten it daveblue,but shouldn't harm your battery - thats the point of having a leisure batt.
If it's not charging could you have blown the fuse in your split circuit, easy to do when the L. batt. is flat, what fuse rating did you use?
That happened to me - flattened leisure battery (with cool box
) had to use jump leads to apply heavy charging current to battery and then replaced blown fuse from split charge relay. Once voltage up a bit everything went back to normal.
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:12 pm
by daveblueozzie
thanks for the input you guys , checked the fuse it had blown put another in, blown again thought id try a 30 amp instead of 25 ok but still no charge to battery, took the 30 amp out replaced with 25 again and it blew again.then had the battery checked at a local garage ,dead battery cell ,he said it wont take a charge, got my money back on battery bought new one ,so far everything ok.
Re: i think ive xxxxxx my battery
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:50 pm
by David Lee
daveblueozzie wrote:is there a way to stop this happening again apart from the obvious of not having the cooler on all the time
two solutions I can think of :-
1) purchasing a cooler with battery monitoring (ie TE36 campinggaz)
2) Maplin's sell a battery monitor (£6 i think). Plugs into 12volt socket and then cooler plugs into monitor. When the monitor senses the battery drop below a certain voltage turns the socket off.
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:54 pm
by daveblueozzie
nice one Dave Lee will look at the monitor from maplins
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:11 pm
by Dave up north
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:15 pm
by Dave up north
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:20 pm
by mikeonb4c
I've been using a cooler box off my leisure battery, also an inverter, and have run it to a crawl. its not complained in the least yet. You must have had a duff battery so v glad you got your dosh back.
Expect a a lecture from the Waeco brigade on this thread ANY MOMENT NOW
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:25 pm
by daveblueozzie
Thanks to Dave up North as well for the maplins link ,have ordered one ,not going to chance flattening the battery again.
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:30 pm
by Dave up north
Or for you posh folk with built in appliances, how about this little devil?
£12
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BATTERY-GUARD-PRO ... dZViewItem
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:52 pm
by alant54
Dave......my only suggestion is that you keep the beer cool by dangling it in the river..( you were close enough )...and switching your coolbox off overnight.....
....sorry if this is not very technical but I am a thick northener.....
Alan
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:34 pm
by daveblueozzie
i ordered the battery saver yesterday (monday afternoon) and it arrived this morning tuesday what a service from maplins.
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:35 pm
by Dave up north
Well done you. How much was the postage for that then?
