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My vehicle battery does not hold a charge over winter. last used in October. Have charged but it loses , now wont charge at all. Advice please on how to stop this?

have you got any power in your vehicle battery as the charger in your van  will not start to charge if your volts are to low

Ray
Charge your vehicle battery with an independant charger connected to under bonnet point detailed in Peugeot handbook. When charged then connect hook up to charge leisure battery. Then make sure for continued storage you shutdown the PSU with the top left black button. If either are flat within days then they are probably in need of replacing.
 Search "Battery" in this forum for other related posts where others have had problems. 

Hope this helps
Martin

Martin you might help Ray charge the battery and you might help Ray blow the battery up he needs to do other checks first .you need to red the other post that just tried to charge a flat battery and blow up

Glyne
Accept the point made, perhaps you are better placed to help Ray.

Martin

Raymond53 wrote:My vehicle battery does not hold a charge over winter. last used in October. Have charged but it loses , now wont charge at all. Advice please on how to stop this?

You might have seen a lot of posts recently based around solar and batteries as it's a common issue, especially at this time of year.  The recent MH's (and modern vehicles in general) all suffer with the same issue, that the drain on the system is quite high and will drain the battery over a couple of weeks.  You notice it less in 'normal' cars as they are used so regularly, but as we use our MH's so little over winter (usually) we feel it most.

I have the same van as you and mine used to last a couple of weeks max before the alarm would trigger due to low battery life, luckily I caught mine in time and recovered it.  The key to avoid this is to either put it on charge regularly or fit a decent amount of solar which can compensate.

If the battery wont charge at all it sounds like it'll need replacing unfortunately - follow Glyne's advice to check it before moving forward, hopefully it'll be ok but a replacement may be the safest option.

Ray if you have the battery on charge now turn it off and get back to me . To recharge this and try and be safe you need to do checks first have you got any volts in your battery .i am on break at mo but will be driving now but will get back in the eve

Have come to the conclusion  that the battery is most probably dead. reluctant to try jump leads in case it causes damage. I will be calling my breakdown company to confirm this. If dead I will purchase new and in future turn off the PSU and keep it triple charged each month and use it for a drive.

Raymond53 wrote:Have come to the conclusion  that the battery is most probably dead. reluctant to try jump leads in case it causes damage. I will be calling my breakdown company to confirm this. If dead I will purchase new and in future turn off the PSU and keep it triple charged each month and use it for a drive.

Did you get the solar panel with the van?  

Just asking as like me you'll find in summer you should be ok with the PSU left on to manage both batteries, but in winter even with the PSU completely turned off the solar still only supplies the leisure battery and the vehicle is left to drain again.

What you're proposing should be fine though and hopefully sort the issue, just good to be aware of it and schedule a regular charge.

Ray did your control show any volts in the vehicle battery as you may have blow the fuse to the vehicle battery. if you are looking for a new battery the old one fitted may say 017 but have been change to 019 and are now more cranking amps