Prism Battery Disconnect really ISN'T!
So...made a discovery today regarding my 2015 Coachman Prism. It's all winterized and under a cover out back. Happened to be working near it and heard a faint "beep beep beep", followed by a pause, coming from inside it. Investigated to find the fridge had turned itself back on! Yup - powered up, interior fridge light on - beeping was the "door open" alarm from the fridge! Now, I had just been in it the day before Thanksgiving, ran the genny, etc., but did not turn on the fridge. Since I have been exercising the generator, I'd left the main propane valve in the open position, so when the fridge powered up, it fired on the propane. Remember I mentioned it was under an RV cover??? At least it has been pretty cold around here, so doubt the fridge actually ran that much, but still... it had run enough to fully ice up the cooling fins in the freezer, since (obviously) I keep the doors open to air when winterized. Confirmed that the main battery disconnect in the step well was indeed OFF - so how/why did the fridge start? A call to the dealer, who in turn called Coachmen, confirmed that the fridge, slideout, and at least the propane detector DO NOT RUN THROUGH the battery disconnect! Seems pretty illogical to me. So propane is now shut off, confirmed fridge is off (re-checked it this evening just to be sure...) - will keep checking it for a while. Coachmen states that since you can turn off the fridge from the panel, it doesn't need to go through the disconnect. Well look how well THAT worked... All I can figure is since I had powered up the rig last week with the genny, and then shut it down, the fridge must have some how sensed that power change and turned on. Anybody got any other ideas? Figured this was worth sharing - wondering if any other owners have experienced anything similar. Of course the owners manual says... oh, wait...they don't come with those, do they? <sigh...> ST
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