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Choosing A Caravan Battery

Differences between Caravan (Leisure) Batteries and Car Batteries. Car batteries are designed to give out a large amount of power over a short time period, for example to start your car, and to be recharged quickly after this.Caravan batteries, part of the leisure battery family, are designed to store power for longer and provide a constant voltage while discharging over a much longer period of time to power various appliances in your caravan.

Leisure Batteries

Leisure batteries are specifically designed to supply power over a longer period of time as opposed to car batteries which are designed to produce a high amount of power, for example to start the car, over a short space of time.Typically leisure batteries have six cells inside the battery which are filled with sulphuric acid and topped up with distilled water. The battery casing is often made from Polypropylene and inside each battery cell is a set of lead plates which expand and contract during the charging process.