Charging system
The coach has been sitting since last Oct 2017. My wife and I were going to head south last February but she got sick, she passed away in June. I haven't decided whether to keep the motorhome or n...
Forum Discussion
wtmtnhiker wrote:
Yes It starts and I drove it about 3 hours but it didn't charge that whole time. The batteries were never dead, I kept it plugged in all the time.
Could be the alternator but it's odd that it would fail while just sitting. I'd wonder if the feed line from the IGN switch hadn't corroded 'open circuit' and you're not getting any field voltage? (Yes, many newer RVs have alternators that self generate their own field voltage, but a 2005 rig might use field voltage supplied from the cockpit).
So, yeah, you might need to go to the shop for diagnosis. The alternators on truck chassis' do tend to be robust though, so I'd look for something like corrosion or broken or rodent chewed through wire associated with the alternator first.
