Can I leave my caravan plugged into electric hook up all the time while not in use? If so will this keep the battery charged?
There's no problem leaving it hooked up to the site EHU its what most people do anyway. It keeps the fridge working and the battery on charge. Or do you mean when its on your drive? In which case I would ask why would you want it permanently hooked up?Can I leave my caravan plugged into electric hook up all the time while not in use? If so will this keep the battery charged?
As previously said ,there is no problem leaving caravan plugged in.You do that on site when you go away for the day.Can I leave my caravan plugged into electric hook up all the time while not in use? If so will this keep the battery charged?
My car will sit on the drive for 2 weeks and still cranks into life. If the battery is isolated it should not loose charge that quickly. My caravan battery I would charge about monthly when not on site. But of course if you have alarms etc then there will be some battery drainage.I am going to store it on the drive and was wondering if the alarm and cold weather as I am quite exposed to strong cold winds here would kill the leisure battery
+1 for nearly 40 years.Ours is plugged all the time at home, previous 2 were as well.
No harm done whatsoever.
Kev
Not sure JC would fully agree given his battery explosion. But that was a very rare event.Most modern caravans have a solar panel, don't they? A solar panel should keep the battery in fine condition and provide adequate for an alarm. I know ours is OK anyway.
Thank you all for the advice the van is 2007 so battery charger should be ok but I will check. As a few of you think that plugging it every few weeks to top up charge is ok I’ll probably go with that. Many thanks again
It's trackers that seem to need constant power - most alarms have a back-up battery - when we bought our 2013 the Phantom tracker flattened the leisure battery in 2 weeks while the caravan was at the dealers for warranty work - soon got disconnected and removed.Surely the reason caravan manufacturers started fitting solar panels was to cover the battery power requirement of alarms and trackers. If the caravan has a solar panel then a mains hook up is not needed.
On our 2010 Coachman 454 the phantom tracker would flatten the battery as you stated in a few weeks, I mentioned this to Phantom and they " magically" reset it by remote and it no longer flattened the battery, but still operated correctly, to the point of having text messages warning that the alarm had gone off , when we were in the south of France.It's trackers that seem to need constant power - most alarms have a back-up battery - when we bought our 2013 the Phantom tracker flattened the leisure battery in 2 weeks while the caravan was at the dealers for warranty work - soon got disconnected and removed.
Hi,Most modern caravans have a solar panel, don't they? A solar panel should keep the battery in fine condition and provide adequate for an alarm. I know ours is OK anyway.