Hello,
I've read through a few of these and can see that there seem to be a fair few people with problems with their Bailey batteries/chargers but couldn't find anything that might remedy my problem, so at the risk of rehashing something that may have already been answered, here we go [again, sorry!]
Ours is an earlier model with the hard-to-get-at charger, not entirely sure of the year, but probably about a 2007.
We bought it without a battery so we have a brand new one on it, so there shouldn't [!] be a problem with that. It can sit in the drive, plugged in to the garage for ages with no problem, but just occasionally, even with everything supposedly turned off 12v-wise, I'll go out and find the battery as dead as a dodo, so I disconnect it, put it on a suitable charger, reconnect it after a few hours of putting a trickle into it and it kicks straight back off. However, it randomly seems to drain very quickly when on site occasionally, so back on a charger etc...
The last time, the 12v switch had been left on all night, but with nothing apparently running from the 12v, I wouldn't have thought that would be a problem, however, we're new to this game, so I actually have no idea if we did wrong with that or not, but I have read where other people turn their 12v on when they hook up and turn it off when they leave with no apparent problems.
I've put a multimeter across the charger and it's got power going in and coming out at 11.5-11.7 volts from the cable connectors actually on the charger. This is echoed at the battery connectors and also by the on-board 12v display.
Now, here's a queer thing; I went to the van today and again - dead as a dodo. So, I disconnected it, plugged it into a charger for 15 minutes, reconnected it and bingo - back up to 11.7v at both terminals. To compound this, I have once just disconnected and reconnected the battery without doing anything else and the power is miraculously back, as if the original connectors had lost contact, but they're clean and have a good, tight connection, so what in God's name is going on with my 12v?
I've read through a few of these and can see that there seem to be a fair few people with problems with their Bailey batteries/chargers but couldn't find anything that might remedy my problem, so at the risk of rehashing something that may have already been answered, here we go [again, sorry!]
Ours is an earlier model with the hard-to-get-at charger, not entirely sure of the year, but probably about a 2007.
We bought it without a battery so we have a brand new one on it, so there shouldn't [!] be a problem with that. It can sit in the drive, plugged in to the garage for ages with no problem, but just occasionally, even with everything supposedly turned off 12v-wise, I'll go out and find the battery as dead as a dodo, so I disconnect it, put it on a suitable charger, reconnect it after a few hours of putting a trickle into it and it kicks straight back off. However, it randomly seems to drain very quickly when on site occasionally, so back on a charger etc...
The last time, the 12v switch had been left on all night, but with nothing apparently running from the 12v, I wouldn't have thought that would be a problem, however, we're new to this game, so I actually have no idea if we did wrong with that or not, but I have read where other people turn their 12v on when they hook up and turn it off when they leave with no apparent problems.
I've put a multimeter across the charger and it's got power going in and coming out at 11.5-11.7 volts from the cable connectors actually on the charger. This is echoed at the battery connectors and also by the on-board 12v display.
Now, here's a queer thing; I went to the van today and again - dead as a dodo. So, I disconnected it, plugged it into a charger for 15 minutes, reconnected it and bingo - back up to 11.7v at both terminals. To compound this, I have once just disconnected and reconnected the battery without doing anything else and the power is miraculously back, as if the original connectors had lost contact, but they're clean and have a good, tight connection, so what in God's name is going on with my 12v?
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