Lightning Strike
After dealing with all the things destroyed in the house from a lightning strike, I finally made it out to the trailer to start work on it. It has been plugged into shore power for the last three week...
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Jim4929 wrote:...a multimeter/voltmeter could tell you how much power is being generated at this time from your battery, (not hooked into shore power)....
Hooked to shore power the battery is reading 7.4 volts
Don't know how long your battery hasn't been charging, but that low WITH shore power hooked up, it may not be charging, or has a dead cell or two....I'd have battery checked out. "IF" you have a spare 12 volt battery, I'd be half tempted to put it in the 5er, hooked up and see if your 12 volt power is there, (ie lights or a light just to see). Even try to THEN open your slides...how old is the battery?
Like you, I can open slides and do quite a bit while plugged into shore power, BUT there have been a couple of times, I had the battery bypassed, hooked to shore power and couldn't open the slides..the battery will give the additional "torque" you might need to open the slides,(the shore power won't be able to offer that much torque if needed) especially if they haven't been opened for a while.
