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Subject Topic: What is a leisure battery?
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12/5/2009 at 9:25am
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If you just make sure all the lights aren't on when you don't need them, you should be ok. Particularly during the summer when you rarely need lights anyway.

You can last a fortnight in a caravan if you do this, probably without recharging at all.


12/5/2009 at 5:57pm
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Still confused. Why are they recommended for caravans but not tents?

 

ta very much



12/5/2009 at 6:22pm
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Quote: Originally posted by mrneillees on 12/5/2009

Still confused. Why are they recommended for caravans but not tents?

 

ta very much




Because caravans need them (to power the battery lights and the water pumps and so on) and tents don't need them.

So if you camp with one in a tent, you're giving up valuable car boot space + weight to something as big as a gas cylinder which actually stores a lot less energy.

Fine if you've got a use for one (bearing in mind they wont power a fridge) but a useless waste of space for most tenters.

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12/5/2009 at 6:22pm
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Caravanners use them more than tenters because caravans can store them in their own little hutch, and can plug them into the car for recharging.

In a tent, you would be tripping over the thing, and humphing it around.  As they weigh more than the Brooklyn Bridge and are filled with sulphuric acid, they are not the ideal solution for lightweight camping.  Then, after your coolbox has flattened it in around 5 minutes, you still have the massive useless brick to trip over for the rest of your holiday.  Lastly, the wife complains that it hurts her back getting it out of the car and back into the house at the end of the holiday.

Z



12/5/2009 at 6:25pm
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Very helpful, I do like plain, non-technical explanations e.g. bloody heavy and don't last very long.

That'll do for me Tommy.

 



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12/5/2009 at 7:30pm
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I am told that you can keep the leiusure battery topped up by using a split charging device that simply plugs into one of the cars cigarette lighter sockets, which will be handy for me as the VW Golf I drive has a lighter socket in the boot. I am looking at getting a 85amp battery just to keep my fridge going at overnight stops, will use EHU at main site. so ideal for campers me thinks.


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Surely its a weekend retreat for HENS!!! 




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