Sewer smell overwhelming
We left home for a 4hr trip with clean flushed tanks, and after setup we flushed the toilet, and the whole camper smelled like sewer. I always drain, and use the black water flushing system until it ...
Forum Discussion
nomad297 wrote:wwest wrote:
"4 hour trip.."
You're overcharging a battery, you get a STRONG sulphur odor from that.
Start out with a mostly discharged house battery, the chassis FIXED VOLTAGE charging system will quickly result in battery out-gassing.
Check the battery water level, it might seriously "boiled" off.
The smells of sulphur and sewage are two completely different things. I'm sure th OP would have mentioned a rotten egg smell if the battery was the problem.
Bruce
Strange....
Years ago we rented a decked out bus, with driver, for a family trip/get together.
Not long into the drive the odor of sewer gas (or so we thought) resulted in the driver finding a dump station.
But the odor persisted...
Then the engine stopped.
Emergency service arrived and quickly discovered that the chassis battery (diesel engine) was seriously outgassing due to be overcharged.
The over voltage had burned out the engine ECU.
Sad ending to our trip.
