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	RE: Battery losing charge	posted by man of kent
	posted on October 24, 2009 at 03:05 PM	Reply to this Message
	The first stop is to check the battery. Companies like Machine Mart sell a battery tester for about £15. You connect the leads to the battery, operate a switch for 10 seconds and see if the needle stays in the green. If not the battery is no good. Well worth the money.
	RE: Battery losing charge	posted by Lars Jacobsson (Sweden)
	posted on August 11, 2008 at 10:45 AM	Reply to this Message
	Hi, I´m an owner of Pilote Galaxy Explorateur 653 (2005)and I had the same problem. But I think I found the reason to the discharge. At the panel just above the door one of the buttons named “AUX” was the reason to discharge. After I put it to “0” my problems was solved. Try this, maybe it’s the same error at your car? Hope this will help
	RE: Battery losing charge	posted by Keith
	posted on February 12, 2008 at 09:38 PM	Reply to this Message
	A long shot perhaps, but check split charge relay as could possibly be allowing habitation batteries to charge ignition battery. An alternative that I have come across is that with the facia still attached to the radio/CD player is still being powered up, removing facia negates this. A duff cell in any of the batteries can cause this type of discharge, worth checking. Good luck
	RE: Battery losing charge	posted by Ralph
	posted on February 03, 2008 at 08:20 PM	Reply to this Message
	Are you sure everything is switched off? IE: have you switched off 12 volts at the control panel? In my van I find that there is still a lot of drain to the Truma realy and the control panel (to name but 2 sources) unless I actually power off at the panel. My radio is wired to the leisure battery and that uses a fair bit of current too, even in standby. And check the wardrobe door. sometimes the light inside doesn't go off if the door is slightly ajar. If you are definitely switching off in this way and the battery is still draining then it looks like the leisure battery is faulty. Try actually diaconnecting the battery terminals and see if it still drains.
	Battery losing charge	posted by George
	posted on January 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM	Reply to this Message
	Hi, I wonder if anyone can help? We have a pilote galaxy and the habitation batteries are going flat in a few days of no use with everything switched off. We checked for current draw down and cant see anything on the meter can anyone help or has no-one experienced a similar problem. Regards, George & Sandra

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