Battery Meltdown!
We recently purchased our friend's '98 Dutch Star motor home. After a few weeks we smelled what seemed to be a black water issue, and then discovered that the cabin batteries (plugged into our hou...
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luv2dsgn wrote:
We recently purchased our friend's '98 Dutch Star motor home.
After a few weeks we smelled what seemed to be a black water issue, and then discovered that the cabin batteries (plugged into our house) were going through melt down with sulfur steaming out of the top of one of them. There was also swelling on the sides of the case.
We began trying to replace these batteries, but have found it difficult to locate. We also discovered they can run over $200 each! (OUCH!!!) :(
The batteries needing to be replaced are Freightliner Commercial Maintenance Free H9.
Any thoughts or suggestions???:h
Also, is it OK to drive this beast across town into storage without these batteries installed until we can replace them?:h
Please advise.
Thanks!
yes you can drive it as it Has no bearing on driving the coach as you indicated there the house batterys and you can replace those with much cheaper priced batterys for sure. H9 is kind of oddball in my opinion you can buy 31 series for about 92$ each or switch to 4 golf cart batterys at 80$ each.Based strictly on a $$ point of view I would switch to 31 series
