CollingwoodCleaning
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Hi all,
Long time reader, first time poster here on the window cleaning forums.
With winter approaching I've started having some issues with my vans batteries (engine battery and leisure pump battery) and I was wondering if anyone had had similar issues/knows a fix?
So I have a van which I brought of a friend with all the kit fitted, including a battery with a split charge relay connected to the engine battery. Recently my engine battery has been going flat alot, especially during a day when I'm working in one area and/or been working on one job for a long time. However after having it tested I've been told that battery is fine. Then the alternator was tested, that was fine as well. I thought maybe the leisure battery is dying, which might be draining the engine battery. Nope, leisure battery tested fine too (which I thought might be the case as I bought it only last winter).
What I'm wondering now is that because the batteries are connected via split charge relay, when the pump battery gets low due to alot of working in one area and not alot of driving, if that's starting to drain the engine battery. Can that happen? And If that is the case does anyone know a fix? Maybe a component I can insert somewhere on the wiring?
Your help would be much appreciated, it's a right pain having to call the wife to ask her to bring the car for a jump start when I'm on a job. ?
Long time reader, first time poster here on the window cleaning forums.
With winter approaching I've started having some issues with my vans batteries (engine battery and leisure pump battery) and I was wondering if anyone had had similar issues/knows a fix?
So I have a van which I brought of a friend with all the kit fitted, including a battery with a split charge relay connected to the engine battery. Recently my engine battery has been going flat alot, especially during a day when I'm working in one area and/or been working on one job for a long time. However after having it tested I've been told that battery is fine. Then the alternator was tested, that was fine as well. I thought maybe the leisure battery is dying, which might be draining the engine battery. Nope, leisure battery tested fine too (which I thought might be the case as I bought it only last winter).
What I'm wondering now is that because the batteries are connected via split charge relay, when the pump battery gets low due to alot of working in one area and not alot of driving, if that's starting to drain the engine battery. Can that happen? And If that is the case does anyone know a fix? Maybe a component I can insert somewhere on the wiring?
Your help would be much appreciated, it's a right pain having to call the wife to ask her to bring the car for a jump start when I'm on a job. ?