Battery Charging

Rather than take the battery out you could switch off all the DC loads, unplug the hook-up, shuffle the battery forward, disconnect the NEGATIVE  terminal and connect your Halfords charger direct to the battery using an extension lead from one of the socket outlets. Do it on a dry day and take care with the connections.

If the battery is in a good state of charge then hooking up the van should be OK to give a top-up, however, generally speaking a van charger will not properly recharge a discharged battery unless you have a smart charger in the van. Some  Swift and Coachman models do have such a system such as Sargent.

I don't think I have a smart charger in my van!!! It's a Bailey Pagaent Monach S7, I couldn't afford an all singing and dancing one If I come into any money I.e. Postcode Lottery or inherit from along lost relative ( some hope) then I will probably get a top of the range and live in it.

Unless Bailey have changed in the last year or so they don't fit smart chargers in any of their caravans, even top of the range.

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Thanks for all your input, most helpful. 

If a caravan is in a gold indoor site, would it really be necessary to leave the battery in for the tracker and charger? If it's locked away behind steel barriers that need a JCB to move them then perhaps the alarm is surpluss to current needs and the battery can be taken home and left on charge. Or is that putting too much faith in the storage facility? Perhaps.

Depends on the conditions of your imsurance

Depends on the conditions of your imsurance

True, and when you've purchased insurance stating tracker and alarm are fitted they need to be operational.

On my Ctek mxs 7 charger instrucions it states that once a year a battery needs to to have a recondition charge to rejuvinate the battery, that I think the charging system in the caravan cannot do