Battery charger setting

Mine was on GEL when I had a AGM battery in my 2013 Hymer. Battery failed within 18 months and so I replaced with wet acid.

Your van is newer and things move on so I would check the manual that should have come with your van. I presume you have a Schaudt unit and if so, you can get English versions of the manual from its website.

Hymer have traditionally fitted GEL batteries for very many years...Goodness knows why!

my charger has Gel or Pb settings, but i have a pair of AGM batteries

i asked a 'battery expert' on another, more technical' forum and (despite his loathing for AGM) gave me his answer....

the Gel setting is better.

however, i also have a Pb starter battery which is also serviced by the same charger so......

with different types of batrery across a MH, its difficult to get a single charger setting to cope with all types......for me, tne Gel setting is onviously a compromise as it suits neither the Leisure batteries nor the cab battery specifically...

the alternative, Pb. wouldnt give a high enough profile for the AGMs.

the latest Schaudt chargers/elektrobloks have an AGM setting, which is nice. but again, this will also be used for the cab battery (probably Pb).

so, almost all choices will be a compromise of some sort.

The Elektrobloks charger fitted only have the two settings so it seems that the gel setting is used. Been doing a bit of homework and it seems neither are the best for agm batteries. The charge voltage is too low. It also got me thinking that should we be matching our solar panel charge controllers to battery type ? Just a thought. 

short answer.....yes......and your alternator? 

apparently there are some smart alternators being fitted to luxury cars these days....

it looks like herting the charging regime right os getting more tricky as we have more choice of batteries.

in order to het a match, more choice of charger 'options' is gradually being offered.