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Having problems with the leisure battery.  Seems to be fully charged because we charged it at home and it looked charged, will light up the bulb on a tester.  When we put it in the unit and connect it up it says no charge, if we run the unit charger it charges but still will not hold the charge, as soon as we switch the charger off the needle drops and we loose all power.  If we turn the charger back on it says fully charged.

Does anyone know if this is a battery problem or a fault with the battery charge indicator unit.

Thanks

Have checked all fuses, tried everything we could think of, but no luck.

Probably end up having to buy a new battery but will be annoyed then if it's a fault on the unit.

Thanks anyhow

Connections all clean and in good condition, unit is less than 4 years old, battery just over 2 years but out of guarentee.

Hubby not keen on trying car battery as will then have to reset all codes, which was not fun last time he had to do that.

Thanks again

Well thanks all for your thoughts and comments.  We seem to have solved the problem. 

Hubby went out this morning and traced the (excuse the 'technical' jargon here) thick black wire from the outside battery compartment in to the unit and found another fuse. NOT in the main fuse panel on the charger but on the inside of the outer wall of the camper unit itself, high up under the seat and not visible unless he lay down on the camper floor and put his head in the seat unit.  We really thought we knew where all fuses were and saw no reference to this in the pennine mannual.

Yellow 20 amp fuse blown, this was in a small clear cover as i say hidden from view on a normal glance in. So hopefully we should be okay now.  Thought I'd let people know incase same happens to them.

Thanks again