kkiger wrote:
My basic question is... While in storage and battery toggles off, both chassis and coach, should my batteries be charging if I'm plugged in.
I'm having a weird issue. My chassis battery has never died. My coach batteries have been dead on occasion. What's strange is, sometimes they are dead and sometimes not. I used the coach in January and everything was fine. It had sat unplugged for maybe two months. After my January trip, I went to use it in February, and the coach batteries were dead. I went home and came back a few days later, to charge the batteries, and the coach batteries were fine. I'm basically using them to crank the gen.
Is the inverter the battery charger as well?
At this point, you should check the voltage of each battery and/or bank of batteries without anything turned on or plugged in. Then plug in and compare your readings. This will tell you if you're getting a charge and then you can go from there.
With our coach, the house batteries charge first and once they're up to specs. then the chassis battery begins to charge. Since you're not having chassis battery problems, I would suspect that it is charging or at least not drawing anything and staying up on it's own from the last alternator charge. If your house batteries are indeed being charged, but not holding for any length of time unplugged, then I would suspect that something is being left or that one or more are bad. Water level OK and not boiling out with overcharging?
