How to thrive on a non 240v site!

We are currently without 240V in our 6 month old Lunar Delta.  So any advice would be appreciated.  We have a 100W Solar Panel and that's charging at 0.2 - 0.3 A

Pretty certain we were showing 14V on the screen at about 5.30, but seems to be now dropping quite a lot and is now 12.1

Fridge is running on gas, as is the water heater.   Other than running some taps to fill a sink,  I'm not sure why we have had the drop.

So any advice you can give would be appreciated, if for no other reason to keep us here until Monday and to not have to abandon an expensive holiday.

Catherine, 12.1v on your battery is about 50% discharged, which sounds a bit low if you havent really used it much.

the 14v you saw at tea time wpuld have been the input charge level from the SP, this is needed to drag the battery up to its peak level of 12.6/12.7v.

tomorrow morning, the SP should be putting charge back into the battery from 9 o clock ish....

keep an eye on things.

Cath, are you sure there are no feeds on your battery? If not, you either have a battery that's playing up or less likely the SP isn't charging as it should- what's the weather like? Overcast or bright? 100w to one battery should be plenty taking into account what you are using it for. We have just had 3 weeks with a 135w SP feeding 2 x 110ah batteries and everything was sweet. Like BB says, keep a close eye on it. 

The battery is showing 12.7 right now.  It was 12.5 when we woke up this morning.

Weather today has mainly been overcast.  

1. So I've just checked now and we are at 12.5V.  In terms of what's on in the van,  it has an alarm and a tracker.  The control panel is on and the taps and lightening are enabled.  We will have flushed the loo and used the LED lighting for a little bit.

The solar panel is currently showing about 0.5 and it's overcast again. 

That sounds ok to me.   The current from the charger is dependant on 2 factors firstly. The amount of sunlight obviously, but also if the controller senses the battery is fully charged then the amounts of amps it puts into the battery reduces.  Yesterday I noticed that if I switched on a few things on the charge went from arround 0.2 amps to 1.7 amps for a short time then reducing again as everything is switched off. 

Thanks Boff,  as this is a new 1st time experience this is all new to us.  Whilst it's not perfect I guess it helps us learn even more about our caravan.  If you'd have asked me last week I'd have not known a fully charged battery was 12.6/12.7.

The firidge/freezer is absolutely amazing running on gas, the freezer is so cold we get ice cold vapour coming out of it.  I've actually turned it down a notch.

Going forward I'm looking at Safefill especially with the demise of the calorlite.

Cath, there are a few of these charts arpund on the net, but this one will give you the idea...

many beginners thing that a 12v battery is full when it reads 12v..its less than half full (and as low as you should go) at that level.

Next question then chaps.  Should I worry when I'm seeing over 13 V on screen?

Also am I correct in reading that the Alde pump is low  power consumption and there is no reason for not having the heating on if it's cold like it was on Saturday.

The good news is we are hoping the dealer is sending someone later today/tomorrow and we hope it's just a loose connection at the back of the psu.