Hi,
We are relatively new camper owners (purchased a 2018 Fiat Ducato Swift Select 122 in April 2021). It was serviced by Tractamotors 2 weeks ago.
We do not yet have a facility to plug in our camper over the winter. We use it almost as a second car so it gets used most weeks. As the weather was frosty the week before last, we switched on the tank heaters to stop the tanks from freezing. I made sure to switch off the fridge fully so it was not also a drain on the system. Ideally I would have liked to drain the water system completely but it's not so easy when you live in the Dublin suburbs!
We switched off the tank heaters a number of days ago as the nights were milder and I noticed both the leisure and vehicle batteries were registering as poor. We then took the van for an hour drive and expected the status to be upgraded to fair but it still showed as poor. FYI the van started first time with no issues.
Despite the van being parked in full sunlight for most of the day, the solar panels don't appear to have been successful in topping up the leisure battery.
We are planning on heading away to a site 90 minutes drive away this weekend and will have EHU for the entirety of our stay. Do you think this will be sufficient to top up the batteries, or have we let them drain too much? If so, where's best to get them checked out/replaced in the Dublin area?
We are relatively new camper owners (purchased a 2018 Fiat Ducato Swift Select 122 in April 2021). It was serviced by Tractamotors 2 weeks ago.
We do not yet have a facility to plug in our camper over the winter. We use it almost as a second car so it gets used most weeks. As the weather was frosty the week before last, we switched on the tank heaters to stop the tanks from freezing. I made sure to switch off the fridge fully so it was not also a drain on the system. Ideally I would have liked to drain the water system completely but it's not so easy when you live in the Dublin suburbs!
We switched off the tank heaters a number of days ago as the nights were milder and I noticed both the leisure and vehicle batteries were registering as poor. We then took the van for an hour drive and expected the status to be upgraded to fair but it still showed as poor. FYI the van started first time with no issues.
Despite the van being parked in full sunlight for most of the day, the solar panels don't appear to have been successful in topping up the leisure battery.
We are planning on heading away to a site 90 minutes drive away this weekend and will have EHU for the entirety of our stay. Do you think this will be sufficient to top up the batteries, or have we let them drain too much? If so, where's best to get them checked out/replaced in the Dublin area?