[Spruce]

Hi All

This is a question to all those WPF'ers who run a separate leisure battery to run their van mounts.

When do you know when you leisure battery needs recharging?

Do you look at the state of charge in the 'magic eye' or do you just know that you need to charge it everyday, or every second day etc?

For those who have a supplementary trickle charge through a split charge relay, how do you factor this into your charging routine?

Thanks for your input.

Spruce

[matthewprice]

i have a pump controller that tell me exactly what charge is left in battery there seem to be 2 kinds one shows 3 bars when full then down to 2 bars the one i use shows 13.2 v down to 11.7 so you know when to charge

[Cliff perkins]

so when do you charge yours then matt at what level,i to have a battery level on my pump controller but dont know how to work it lol,

[britishwill]

On my batteries (Pure freedom) they say to charger every day as they are cyclick battery. not sue if i have spelt that right.
they should be charger at the end of each working day. I have had mine for 3 years so far and only  now are they just about lasting a day 5-6 hours on glass

[steven ainger]

I charge mine after every day of use.
My last battery lasted just over 4 yrs charging this way

[matthewprice]

i charge when i ger to12v that then lasts me over 10 days ,been doing this for 2 years ,cant say why it lasts so long the other van only lasts 4 days where we had a variflow the one with 3 bars ,so we changed the controler at the weekend to see how this works

[AS Window Cleaning]

experience spruce. when started I charged every day. then got my identical 110 amp battery out of caravan as spare so wouldn't be screwed when went flat, it lasted nearly 4 weeks or 3 short days!

so when carry spare I swap after 3 weeks, when I don't I tend to charge every other week. I only charge at 2 amp. so far batteries lasted 2 years, and no sign of shortening battery life.

just remember tho unless u have spare with u, or means to run off van (I know old man Harding can run his off cigarette lighter) then a flat battery means end of working day.

[Spruce]

So it would appear that we have got into a routine of charging that works for us and that is what we stick to.

This is what I do as well as I have no gauge to monitor the state of charge of my battery. If we are going to do a big job I always make sure the battery is fully charged before I start.
What I doing must be right as when I get my intelligent charger out my leisure battery in usually around 75% of capacity.

AS- that battery of yours lasts a long time on one charge. That pump you use can't be the same as the Shurflo pumps we are using.

Thanks for your replies so far.

Spruce