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Hi Everybody,

This might sound daft, can you use any battery charger on a leisure battery, just seen chargers in the caravan shop just for leisure batteries(very expensive)not sure now if a normal charger i have will do the job. Please advise as were going away in two weeks.

many thanks

Thanks Flyboy

Its seemed a daft question anyway but i just wanted to make sure.

Hi Andy and Shaz

The Caravan Club tech department warn against the use of an ordinary 12V charger for a Leisure battery.

These batteries are manufactured to a different spec than a car battery and need slow charging.

Hate to see you fork out for a new battery.

The battery in rogerj`s post would be just the ticket.

I have checked the Caravan Club Technical Leaflet on charging leisure batteries and they are to be treat differently from car batteries if you are to get the best from them.

weerab

Many of the battery chargers mentioned above should not be used when on hook up, they are BENCH chargers meaning they should be used away from vehicle, they are definately not designed to use on hookup while you are using the battery, using while on hook up could potentially be dangerous too.

George

When we are on hook up we can have it so that the battery is charging while on hook up up just use hook up and all 12v items are run through the transformer.   (this is charge in van not a seperate one)  Never had any problems with battery on hook up. Just make sure its charge before going away if we not using electric.

But our home charge is 12v and 6v and has lights that come on to tell you when charging is complete