Long awaited motorhome battery scheme to be launched
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The motorhome trade body, the NCC (National Caravan Council) will officially launch its Verified Leisure Battery Scheme this autumn at the Motorhome & Caravan Show 2015.
The scheme provides product verification for batteries used in leisure vehicles. With modern leisure vehicles featuring more technology and electrical appliances than ever before, buying an NCC verified leisure battery gives consumers confidence that the battery they purchase for use is fit for purpose and will perform as advertised. Also, the NCC will encourage its leisure vehicle member manufacturers to fit NCC verified leisure batteries.Battery verification comes via a comprehensive, industry leading, testing process conducted by suitably certified and audited test houses. Batteries will be verified, and labelled accordingly, into three categories, A, B or C, depending on their capacity and intended purpose.
- Category A is for batteries with a higher storage capacity for people who frequently use their caravans or motorhomes away from electrical hook-ups.
- Category B batteries are aimed at those who frequently use sites with hook-up facilities, but require a greater battery capacity to operate devices such as motor movers.
- Category C is for users that require a lower capacity battery to cover basic operation of their habitation equipment for short periods away from a hook-up.
“We already have some of the leading leisure battery brands signed up to the scheme, including Banner, Platinum and Yuasa and will continue to bring more on board in the future.”
MMM's technical guru Clive Mott got involved in this scheme while researching for the battery article recently published in MMM. Clive was given an early draft of the scheme that had great objectives but did rely on the NCC doing lots of expensive and time consuming testing. Sometime later Clive was sent an updated draft and in this version all measure of battery cycle life (the number of times a battery can be charged and discharged under a given test cycle) had been removed. Clive advised that without some measure of battery life that the scheme was toothless and that he would not support such a scheme. The then Technical Manager of the NCC stood down and was replaced by David Reid who telephoned Clive seeking his viewpoint. This lead to an invite to attend a meeting of the Battery Working Group at Hull University Campus.
Clive commented, “Look for the NCC label with its three classifications (A,B,C). It’s a very good starting point for a decision on what to get. There will always be those whose needs fall outside these three norms but do start with them.”
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