Excessive battery use.

[DarranKing68]

could you elaborate please? what's reporting "low battery charge" a message on the MFD? And what's a "Driving error"? What is the source of this info?

It reports on the display between the clocks, 12v battery low. Charge by driving. This warning comes up after about three days of the van not being used. I start the engine and it goes away. My van is used mostly at weekends as it’s my fishing van.

 

[doncarlyon]

It reports on the display between the clocks, 12v battery low. Charge by driving. This warning comes up after about three days of the van not being used. I start the engine and it goes away. My van is used mostly at weekends as it’s my fishing van.

Do you have a leisure battery?

 

[DarranKing68]

Do you have a leisure battery?

No I don’t the van is not converted to a camper. It’s just was a startline van that has had lining and a second row of seats added, side windows added and a front bumper trim. That’s about it. Only other thing is it has a reversing camera and forward dash cam in the mirror, but I don’t know if that was in the van to start with or added afterwards by the original owner.

 

[Alster]

Not wishing to state the obvious but have you got a usb adapter plugged in to your 12v outlet?

 

[DarranKing68]

Not wishing to state the obvious but have you got a usb adapter plugged in to your 12v outlet?

No, I have a t6.1 with its own USB ports but nothing is plugged into them.

I don’t leave anything on or anything plugged in.

 

[CAB]

Oh yeah and I've just ordered one of those little 10w Eco-Worthy solar panels to sit on the dash and plug into the cig lighter socket. I know they're probably not much good but if it helps to combat the parasitic drain a bit it might be worthwhile.

If it is facing the sun it should do for the summer, but it won't give you enough in the winter.

 

[StratosFearXX]

If it is facing the sun it should do for the summer, but it won't give you enough in the winter.

Yeah appreciate that but if it means I can forget about it for 6 months of the year that works for me.

 

[CAB]

Yeah appreciate that but if it means I can forget about it for 6 months of the year that works for me.

March to September it managed on mine