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ETCrockett's avatar
ETCrockett
Explorer
May 04, 2017

Battery Drain on Jayco Pinnacle

Wife and I traded our 35'TT of 12 years for a 2016 Jayco Pinnacle 38FLSA. First time 5ver here, but it so much easier towing than the TT and I had 12 years experience at that! My problem is battery drain. I just bought this 5ver in Jan 2017 and it has 6 brand new batteries. I shut off the battery disconnect when in storage and 2 months later I have no problem with power when I go to take it for Service. Camping World has it for 2 weeks and when I go to pick it up there is not enough juice to retract the front landing gear. Nothing is on inside the unit. CW is telling me that there are enough memory boards and gadgets drawing juice even when off that they can drain 6 new batteries in 2 weeks without shore power. I never experience this with the TT and only 1 battery so I'm having a hard time accepting this explanation and not thinking something else might be wrong. Does anyone had experience with this same issue on battery drain while nothing is turned on?

I look forward to hearing from you.
  • FLY_4_FUN's avatar
    FLY_4_FUN
    Explorer
    May 04, 2017
    Whenever a rig is left at an rv dealership you can bet that lights may be left on, normal parasitic loads will occur and it will only be plugged in if the techs absolutely need it. In 2 weeks im sure that even a large battery bank could be drained pretty significantly. I remove my T105's when rig is in for warranty work.

    Daryll
  • rvrev2's avatar
    rvrev2
    Explorer
    May 04, 2017
    I had battery drain on my old Jayco. Turned out someone had removed the emergency break away cable plug that energizes the brakes if the trailer becomes separated from the tow vehicle. Ended up damaging the magnets on the brakes.
  • work2much's avatar
    work2much
    Explorer
    May 04, 2017
    Lame. No, 2 weeks shouldn't drain 6 new batteries with battery disconnect (or without). Now it seems they have let them get down below healthy levels and possibly damaged them. If it's their contention that in 2 weeks the batteries could be drained down that far then they should have taken care to keep them in a good state of charge while the camper was in their possession. Plugging trailer in every couple days is all that it would take.

    What did you have serviced?
  • Wind_River's avatar
    Wind_River
    Explorer
    May 04, 2017
    Sounds like CW left the batteries on and the "gadgets" drained your batteries.

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