Caravan Battery we think is dead even though we have solar

[Saxo Appeal]

I was sure (sure) we switched everything off when we put the caravan into Storage…. hmmm very odd!

So leaving that black button in the down position (ON) would drain the battery?

If everything is working then all good I suppose.

 

[birdman101]

With the button off, the Alarm Battery if it gets low, then gets a charge from the Leisure Battery. If you go into the Alarm control box and go through the menu, if it is charged it should read 5 volts. There should be instructions for the Alarm in the Wallet supplied with the caravan
If this reads 5 volt as charged it should not draw from the leisure Battery. If it is below 5 v it will draw some power. I would go back and check things again next week.

 

[birdman101]

If you look through the Alarm menu it will show log of number of the times the Alarn has actuated. If this is excessive it may have pulled the Alarm Battery volts down enough to have required a charge and each time it went off would have pulled volts to actuate the lights flashing. Make sure the 4 corner steadies are down to prevent the Caravan rocking in the wind ,as this will keep setting the Alarm off and using power.

 

[Saxo Appeal]

Just as a note

We also do have the Trutrak device (TruTrak Pro 4G - FMT100 4G GPS Tracker) which connects straight to the battery in the compartment.

I was told by their team it hardly uses any power and only wakes up now and again to send the location. So I have a record of when the last signal was sent 20/11 and the battery was at 7.5V

Quote from TruTrak
‘The device has its own internal battery so shouldn’t take any drain from your own vehicle battery as the device only ‘wakes up’ every 6 hours when parked to ensure nothing has changed and the device hasn’t moved, etc’

I have now disconnected this device as it looks to be faulty, as Trutrak can’t see it powering back up, they want me to send it into them for checking.

Note: When I was back down at 14:40pm and since 12pm checked again and the battery has went from 12.48 to 12.41 and the charge LED on the Truma controller was off and the MPP green light was blinking, charge led was probably off as sun was going down.