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Quote: Originally posted by steveiem on 16/6/2011

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     i was going by my experience ,vans 12v lights bit of water pumping and using a 21" lcd tv/dvd combo , on an invertor with a 110 amp leisure battery , it usually lasts 5 to 6 hrs ,,

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Quote: Originally posted by nutgone on 16/6/2011

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To the OP, I don't know much about in-built van chargers, I thought they were just like normal battery chargers???

A home charger will do the job, the one you mention will be ok, but will just take a little longer.

Even better will be charging it up via the car as you're on your way up there, that's if you have the grey socket on the back of your car?

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We've recently had two 4 day trips without EHU and the battery was only charged during a weekend trip when on EHU.  At this time of year you won't need the light on for very long - we only had one spotlight on for a couple of hours during the evening when we were watching our portable DVD player. Our toilet is manual flush but we had 2 showers a day + one child top'n'tailing twice a day. We only put the water heater on for 30 minutes before & during the showers. 

Our battery was new when we bought the caravan in April. We are very pleased with how gas & battery lasted, but we do take spares in case we run out of power.

Caravan onboard chargers don't fully charge the battery because they only get to 13.8volts this is to stop gassing , where as a standard battery charger will reach about 14.4 volts while charging , you should make sure your standard charger has settings for sealed/leisure batterys and make sure you know what type of battery you have , read all about it Here .

atb

Wizard  

Quote: Originally posted by wizard9956 on 16/6/2011

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Caravan onboard chargers don't fully charge the battery because they only get to 13.8volts this is to stop gassing , where as a standard battery charger will reach about 14.4 volts while charging , you should make sure your standard charger has settings for sealed/leisure batterys and make sure you know what type of battery you have , read all about it Here .

atb

Wizard  

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