2000 Dutch Star 3851 Winterizing Questions
This is my first season with this and after reading the factory manuals I decided to try winterizing myself. Previous owner memory is getting cloudy. I opened both hot and cold water drains at bott...
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rowekmr wrote:
But I forgot to ask 1 more question. I found the chassis battery disconnect switch in the rear compartment that I plan to use coupled with the house battery disconnect on the electrical panel inside but reading the owner manual it says the propane gas detector will still stay on. Any way to cut it off so won't drain batteries dead?
The easiest way is to disconnect one of the battery cables, preferably the negative one to chassis ground.
There may be a fuse that's somewhat accessible that you could pull to disconnect it, but I would not bet money on that. There may also be a less accessible fuse (say an inline fuse behind the detector) that could be pulled with a little work.
There also could be some other parasitic loads that are not disconnected, such as radio or clock memories.
