Battery Questions
I'm building a new home out of state and have been staying in my mh in a campground the last three months. Until this adventure most of the time my mh has been in storage w/o electricity and when using the mh I've been in a campground for about a week at a time. Now that I have been hooked up to electricity for three months I've made some observations that are strange to me. During the course of the day when I'm using power from the house batteries for extended amounts of time I've noticed my battery charger going to the "bulk" charge mode. However, most of the time the charger is in the "float" mode and at night the charger is in the "standby" mode (indicating to me that the batteries are fully charged). After a hard rain I had water ponding on one of my slide toppers so I turned on the ignition switch to use the jacks to raise one end of the mh to get the water to run off, when I did this the "chassis" batteries were not strong enough to run the jacks.
So my questions about this situation:
1) Is it normal for the charger to go to "bulk" mode to charge the house batteries during heavy usage?
2) When the charger is in the "standby" mode why didn't the "bird" allow the charger to montor and charge the "chassis" batteries?
Water level in the house batteries is good and all the batteries are a little over 2 years old.
I switched the master switch for the chassis batteries off and put an auxiliary battery charger on the chassis batteries. The charger charged the batteries up and went to the "full" mode. I came home after this and will be going back in a little over a week to monitor the situation closer. Does anyone have any advise for things to look for when I get back to the mh. I'm thinking I have one or more bad house batteries and one or more bad chassis battery.
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Sonny, Anita and Phoebe
2005 MADP 4304, 2005 Ford Crew Cab F150 toad, 2009 Harley Ultra Classic
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