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We are going to talk to the dealer tomorrow but would like to hear suggestions from users of movers first.  Had a Powertouch fitted in March and battery was green but several days ago checked out the caravan for the start of the season and the battery that had been green was on two yellow lights. OH connected up to electric for two days and checked and it was back to green.  Just checked again after another two days back to  two yellow.  Had electric on for two nights again and from 9am til 4pm today it has gone to two yellow lights again.

The isolator has been turned off and the handset was switched off.  Reading the booklet it states that press D to turn off handset and press D+ seconds to turn off control box.  Now I didn't do that bit re control box (didn't rememember) and OH says if isolator is turned off it can't drain the battery. 

The battery is a year old, are we leaving it on electric long enough as it does go green.

What do you think please.

Carol

I really cannot comment on your particular make of Mover, but we did find last year that ours which is a Reich make, will take some power from the main battery, even when the isolator switch is turned off. We were advised by the dealer to keep the battery topped up to at least 11volts, which luckily for us is not really a problem as we are able to do this at home, and we use 99% of sites with an Ehu anyway so we do remain fairly consistantly in the green. 

Im not sure if its the Mover or the caravans charging system, but we find that if our battery does go fairly low of charge then it will blow a fuse in the circuit box and trip out the system to prevent the battery from becoming totally drained and unable to recharge properly.

Julia

Thanks everyone for your help.  Well we have quite a few things to mull over.  Don't think we left any taps on as we have not heard the pump running.  OH at skittles so will check that in the morning.  Will get a multi meter as that sounds a handy piece of kit to have.  Also did not know about the caravan charger not getting the battery to much over 12.4.

Cheers

Carol

a fully charged battery is 12.7 volts.

see looking after your battery.

http://www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk/datasheets

Looking after your Leisure Battery

An update.  After several days of charging the battery to show full then leaving it for hours and still showing full, every time it was connected to the caravan after a few hours showed two yellow lights.  Frustration or what!  Anyhow OH had been charging it on fast charge and decided to try slow charge and fingers crossed it was green, in caravan was green and so far has STAYED green.  So worth trying if anyone else gets this problem.

Cheers

Carol

The slow charge is a good idea. Too fast a charge means that only the plate and electolyte at the interface of plate and electrolyte charges. In time this charge dissipates to the surrounding material resulting in a much lower average charge. A slow charge allows it to dissipate as it charges.

There was a thread on here once before about this. We've got a problem with our new caravan draining the battery too. It tands to happen over about a 4 to 5 week period. The only thing I found left on in the van was the Arial booster, would this drain a 110amp battery in 4 to 5 weeks??

I've got the battery off the van now & sitting in my garage on a rubber mat, the van's in for its first service in 4 weeks time & I'll need to charge it for then so I can use the mover to get it off the drive.

I've never seen the instructions as mentioned in this thread about turning off the mover control box by pressing buttons on the remote though.

BB

O B****y H**L  The battery swith on the wardrobe wall still goes to 2 yellow lights but the battery when put on main charge is full.  So we are now thinking it is the actual bvattery indicator  switch.  Another trip to the dealers!!!

Carol

Buy a cheap multimeter and measure the battery voltage then you'll know whats going on. get one at Maplins for £7.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=37279