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Hi all,

New to the site and looking for some advice from my learnerd caravaners.

We have a 1999 Sterling Emerald. We are having problems with the electrics, the battery charges up when hooked up to the car but is not charging when hooked up at the site. All our 240 works on site, telly etc but things like water pump run slow when we have been away for a few days and we need to replace battery and put ours on my sisters to re charge. We put the heating on when we where away last time and it killed a full new battery in 2 hours.

Anybody here got any ideas of what this problem could be

Hi Darragh,

Thank you for the reply. I dont know if the van charger is working, it forms part of the full electrical unit, pump switch, van / car switch etc. I did take it off and the switch at the back is turned on.

Thanks everyone,

Steve yes we do have a charger fitted, it is on the back of the electric control unit. It was working last year but having problems with it now.

If the battery charger is not working then as a temporary measure to get over the problem of having to take it to another van to charge it you could use an ordinary car battery charger plugged in inside your own van.