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Hi. We're new to caravanning, and still learning so bear with me and don't laugh.

We checked the Leisure Battery today and it is bone dry.  We have had the van plugged into the mains , but don't know if the battery is now beyond saving.

Is it worth buying a charger, topping the battery up with distilled water, and trying to keep this battery going, or should we buy a new one?

Our van has 4 internal lights running off 12v, and it seems like the central heating blowers work only with the battery too, so although we will always camp with EHU we need a decent battery.

The local battery shop sells 110amp batteries for £55, so we would like to be sure before we spend that amount of money.

Thanks for any advice.

It would need topping up with a mixture 35% sulphuric acid/65% distilled water if its bone dry.

I very much doubt you would be able to revive it. If is boiled dry though over charging the plates would be distorted.

Sounds like you need a new battery to me .

atb

Wizard

If you do require a new battery, I have found Bristol Battery Co quite well priced and helpful.  Not sure if they send out as I live local and picked mine up.

Call them on 0117 9550536

The problems will show when under load, it may show 13V, but when running your lights etc it could flatten very quickly

Personally if it was dry, would buy a new one to be safe

hi if i were you i would take it to your local garage

and ask them to do a drop or load test this will

tell you if you have saved it or not

regards

andy

Thank you all  looks like i managed to save it, it is still reading 13.52v after nearly three weeks.

Kinza