Power Down Wakeup Call

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Hi Tarrel,

A good real life test of your preparedness. You passed the test it seems:-)

Re leisure battery being partialy discharged: Our solution is to use the leisure batteries to power the house burglar alarm (if power cuts, the alarm will stay active for at least 3 months) The batteries are permanently charged using a smart charger. This means that they are always 100% good to go when our mains power drops out.

This system works well. The only issue we had was finding a smart charger that would not revert to a standby condition after mains power was restored. If you are sure to be at home to re-set the smart charging cycle, this is not an issue of course. From time to time Lidl and Aldi sell really well made smart chargers for around £15.... these are of the manual re-set variety.

Stay safe up there!