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04-06-2018, 10:36 AM
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As A32Deuce said, you need the batteries ON to charge them, unless you have an inverter/ charger hooked directly to the batteries.
If you have an inverter/charger, you may need to enable the charge mode on it.
You only switch off the batteries if in storage and have no shore power.
On another note, the gauge your showing 7 on is an amp gauge not a volt gauge. Something is drawing 7 amps.
There should be a way to see volts.
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04-06-2018, 11:11 AM
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{they are slightly swollen don’t appear real old}
They are 5 years old and if they are swollen they have been frozen and a dead battery will freeze. If a battery drops to 12.1 it is at 50% charge. I have boon dock for 7 days with a RR frig and never had low batteries because I start my gen-set when they get to 12.2v and my are 6 years old and my inverter has never been turn off in 5 years when I got the frig installed.
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04-06-2018, 08:04 PM
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I had the same problem and it was 2fold, biggest current draw was the inverter was bad, and one glow plug also bad causing short and drawing down NEW batteries
Disconnected inverter and new glow plugs fixed my problem
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04-06-2018, 08:17 PM
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The panel looks like a full energy management system. I'm thinking he has an Inverter/converter connected directly to both battery banks. How else would it show both batteries... Given that I don't think he knows what the the meter means.
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04-07-2018, 06:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JRUSH311
My meter
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Look at the top right corner. Battery volt meter is blank. Turn the batterys on!
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04-07-2018, 10:21 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JRUSH311
I’m beginning to suspect the batteries are bad
I let the generator run all night and I had 7 volts showing within 30 mins and I had the batteries off so nothing could draw
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Swollen batteries?? Yep, get them out of there..
The 7 amps showing is AC amps.
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04-07-2018, 10:54 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JRUSH311
Will be getting all 4 of these tested it’s got to be the batteries
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The batteries are 5 years old. More than old enough to become useless if not properly maintained.
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04-07-2018, 06:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by A32Deuce
Look at the top right corner. Battery volt meter is blank. Turn the batterys on!
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Not so! I have same energy management system panel in my Bounder. The meter only shows a reading for batteries when you hold in the main or aux button.
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04-07-2018, 09:25 PM
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He also said when the generator was running, he had the batterys off to prevent any draw from them. They need to be on to charge and sorry I did not know All about that panel!
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04-07-2018, 09:27 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by majicchuck
Not so! I have same energy management system panel in my Bounder. The meter only shows a reading for batteries when you hold in the main or aux button.
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Did you read any of the above or just jump on this?
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04-08-2018, 06:23 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by A32Deuce
Did you read any of the above or just jump on this?
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Funny. Read the entire thread. Not going to argue about this. If batteries are swollen, he obviously needs new batteries. A week ago I had to replace my coach batteries due to two busted batteries.
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04-08-2018, 09:28 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by majicchuck
Funny. Read the entire thread. Not going to argue about this. If batteries are swollen, he obviously needs new batteries. A week ago I had to replace my coach batteries due to two busted batteries.
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Can lead them to water but sometimes. You know the rest.
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