2014 Ducato / Bessacarr battery isolation
I wonder if anyone is able to offer me some advice. I am a year into the joys of motorhome ownership (family, 2 young kids, loving it) and am still on a fairly steep bit of the learning curve! Insights from those of you more experienced on ths forum are
really helpful to me and I keep an eye on posts. Please excuse me if this is a daft questions.
After about 3-4 weeks the vehicle battery on my 2014 Ducato-based Bessacarr 496 is flat and needs jump stating. Is this par for the course for those of your running similar vans? It doesn't seem that long to me for a new battery which is, according to
its recent habitation check, in good condition as you would expect at 12 months old.
Around the barrel where the ignition key inserts there's a red bit of plastic. The rather sketchy users manual imples that this might be a way of isolating the vehicle battery. Preumably it drains all the time for the remote locking, for example? This
is where the question gets a bit daft. I cannot work out what to do to the ignition barrel and that bit of red plastic to isolate the battery. Has anyone else got a new Ducato with a similar isolator who can tell me how it works please?
Thoughts much appreciated, and apologies for my ignorance.
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I thought the plastic bit was to allow the sidelights to stay on......may be totally wrong with your model!
Depending...the vehicle battery will go flat after 2 to 4 weeks due to the load if not run.
If not using the MH I charge the battery, in situ, with a decent (CTEK?) battery charger when it reads about 12.3 to 12.4 volts. Charge for at least a few hours...a half hour drive isn't a reasonable charge.
PS. If you isolate the battery the alarm obviously won't work...assuming you have one?
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