
theoldmancunian
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- T5 SE 140
This may seem very naive and embarrassingly stupid of me, but I have no idea how to interpret the volts and amps readings that are displayed in the central control panel in my 2008 Cali. Apologies for my lack of understanding but my schoolboy studies of electrics never got me very far!
Presumably these readings relate to the leisure battery - or do they show readings off the main van battery? On start-up the A reading often leaps from 0 to about 24 and then gradually comes back down, often to c.6 or at times as low as 1 or 2. Is that what I should expect? What does that actually mean and at what point is it showing something that I ought to be concerned about?
Similarly the V reading is c.14 ... what am I to take from that?
Surprisingly there's nothing in the manuals as far as I can see to answer these questions.
Any help that anyone can provde would be very much appreciated!
Presumably these readings relate to the leisure battery - or do they show readings off the main van battery? On start-up the A reading often leaps from 0 to about 24 and then gradually comes back down, often to c.6 or at times as low as 1 or 2. Is that what I should expect? What does that actually mean and at what point is it showing something that I ought to be concerned about?
Similarly the V reading is c.14 ... what am I to take from that?
Surprisingly there's nothing in the manuals as far as I can see to answer these questions.
Any help that anyone can provde would be very much appreciated!