Flat Battery

BrianG

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Sat Dish

I've been having problems with my main battery running down and after tearing the whole van apart finally managed to isolate it to the fact that my Oyster Vision automatic sat dish is the problem. Apparently whoever wired the thing in decided to take the supply from the vehicle battery instead of the leisure battery. It is drawing roughly 1 amp on standby which I think is rather high.
Anyway I have moved the supply to the leisure battery but obviously they will be dragged down instead. I've downloaded installation and operating manuals but neither of them give any indication of current consumption.
Does anybody know what the current draw should be on standby? If it is as high as 1 amp on standby then I'll fit an isolating switch.
Thanks Folks,
Brian
 
i would say that if the dish is drawing any current and unless the item needs a constant current for any memory storage ie channel frequencies, then an isolating switch would be ok to put in line after all why have a piece of equipment that is not being used drawing current when the van is parked up unused . i know radios fitted in a van or car are connected to a constant feed but they use minimal power and can be left months without any noticeable battery drain
 
my Oyster has two modes of shutdown - normal half-awake and completely out to it. Yours is going into the standby mode perhaps, but you may have a completely off/power-saving mode as well. From memory one can be started from the remote while the dead mode requires buttons to be pushed - on the remote sensor on mine.

As an alternative - just unplug the 12V at the socket
 
my Oyster has two modes of shutdown - normal half-awake and completely out to it. Yours is going into the standby mode perhaps, but you may have a completely off/power-saving mode as well. From memory one can be started from the remote while the dead mode requires buttons to be pushed - on the remote sensor on mine.

As an alternative - just unplug the 12V at the socket
 
We had a flat battery yesterday, left the MH, switched off the power or so i thought, but actualy switched onto vehicle power. As the fridge is left open, the internal light flattened the batt. Simple but stupid thing to do.

An hr on EHU put enough back to start, then we had to have an afternoon out to charge fully
 
Problem Solved

Problem solved.

All fixed,. The 1 amp draw was the digital receiver which was wired directly to the satellite supply with no isolating switch and the L.E.D on the receiver had failed so we didn’t know if it was on or off.
We had just been switching the telly off, dropping the dish not realising that the receiver was merrily eating the amps.
Everything is now connected to the leisure batts and the receiver now has a master switch. It was the fact that somebody told me that a digi receiver draws about 11/4 amps that put me in the right direction. It does help to know when fault finding what every item is drawing. The sat dish does need a permanent supply for it’s memory but just milliamps.
I wonder if it was a professional installer who messed up or a previous owner!

Cheers, Brian
 
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