hi got a split charger installed do i still need to charge my battery up every night please
It depends on how long your engine is running every day and how big your leisure battery is.
If you work close to home then the SCR won't put much charge back into the battery. This is our situation. I have a 110amp leisure battery and I charge it every few days depending on use.
Leisure batteries don't accept a rapid charge - rather a trickle charge. Mine will accept a charge of around 7 amps an hour at a 3/4 charge dropping down as the battery gets charged more fully.
So in theory, we have to travel for an hour to replace 2 hours pump useage if the pump draws 3.5 amps.
If my pump consumes 15 amps during the day (controlled by my Varistream flow controller) then I should have enough current in the battery to charge it every 7 days. We may spend 20 to 30 minutes a day travelling to and from work so 3.5amps in does help but won't have a major charging impact.
In our case, we had an old leisure battery that failed about 2 years ago on a rather big job the 2 of us were doing. We were able to run the engine which provided enough power to run the 2 pumps to finish the job and replenish some of the charge back to the battery. I replaced the battery a few days later - it was 3 1/2 years old. Just on this one job, the SCR paid for itself.