Went to a large shop on a retail park today to take the system over.Just run of the mill stuff i thought

opens the panel and nearly got blinded by the heat.

The system is only 9 months old,but it turns out that since day one,the main pcb has been punting out 20.11 volts dc.Surely not ithought,but apparently so.Also couldnt find any meter readings,the amazing thing is though that it has worked perfectly for so long.

I swear the battery was so hot you could hardly touch it,and was still toasty an hour later.

Anyhow just thought i'd share that one with you

Strange but true

Hope you changed the panel..?

we used to use powersonic batts and you often found them hot charging at 13.8.

it was nice in the winter but not for the alarm.

Dave does that powersonic batt still take pribe of place in the 800 on th front page ?

No mate, we had a faulty batch of Powersonics about 6 years ago, so i used my initiative and removed the one from my own panel.

There`s a nice 7AH Yuasa fitted now.

The technical support guy thought i was having a laugh,he'll find out i wasnt though when the pcb arrives on his desk

what was that panel that had a sticky foot stuck in the bottom of the panel to lift the batt out of the way of the screw hole.........

Was it an old castle panel (omega 8,control 4) still thinking 2 weeks on...

P.S This is my 100th post do i get a badge or something ?.........

I had the exact same problem about 2 years ago with a Optima 2+ I phoned ADE

and they said the voltage regulator on the panel was faulty and they said to check

out any equipment that draws power from the panel.

I eventually traced the problem to a compfort LED that was fitted to the bottom of an old H type bellbox.