BraxtonBaird1
Sep 02, 2019Explorer
All my batteries are dead
I recently purchased a 2018 Windsport 35M and I am not understanding how the battery disconnect switch is working. I keep it plugged in at my house all of the time to a 50 amp. Two weeks ago I drove it to a RV Park two hours away to use during the football season. I was running the generator and about an hour into the drive the generator shuts down displaying a code 36. I start it up again and it runs for about 20 minutes and then shuts down again with the same code of 36. So I leave it off and continue the drive to the park. I get to the park and plug it in to a 50 amp plug and leave it. I come back two weeks later and the refrigerator is not working and the 110 outlets in the bedroom are not working on the driver’s side wall. The battery indicator by the door is dead. I leave a floor fan running when not in use and it had stopped. I then try to crank the engine and there is no power from the chassis battery. I try the Emergency start switch and there is no power from the coach batteries. I then take another vehicle and jump start the engine on the coach and while the engine is running I hold down the Emergency start switch and I see a reading on the charge indicator that starts at .7 and then climbs to 12.2. I then take a battery charger and connect it up to the coach batteries ( 2 12volt). I call the dealer where I purchased the coach and explain what happened and they tell me my converter must have gone bad. The next morning I check the converter’s fuses and they are both good. When I remove one of the fuses the lights go out and if I unplug the converter the lights go out. I call the dealer back and talk to a different tech and tell them what happens when I unplug the converter and they tell me it’s working fine. They then tell me to turn off the shore power and then go press the battery disconnect switch and I hear the loud click from the back. I then disconnect my battery charger from the coach batteries and turn on the shore power. When I go back in and look at the charge indicator it is reading 13.2 or 13.4 so now its charging. So I’m confused about why the chassis battery was dead. If the battery disconnect switch was on then wouldn’t all of the lights in the coach be off? Or does the shore power override the switch? Maybe the floor fan drained the coach batteries over two weeks? Why was the chassis battery dead? There is a battery isolation manager that is supposed to prevent draining the coach battery, right? Not sure if the problem with the generator stopping is related or not.