Seems the liesure battery is on its way out! Dropped several volts overnight yesterday even to solar panel all ok and it was sunny!
More copious reading of tinternet beginning to look like knackered leisure battery after all!
Seems the battery only good for around 4/5 yrs, this ones 6!
We had a VW T2.5 for 8 yrs leisure battery was fine when it was sold!
So never crossed my.mind that it would fail this soon!
On hindsight, we've not used this van much over the last couple of years due to covid and ill health on my part. So didn't occur to me that the battery wasn't getting maintained.
Now that for the time being anyway, I've just wired it to the solar panel via mppt unit. So that will keep it topped up in future.
We've mains hookup for when we're parked up for a week. So no worries regarding charge etc.
When I refitted the battery it was fully charged at 12.8 today no load and disconnected 12.2!
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