Do house or chassis batteries start the generator?
Does the generator start off the same battery as the engine or does it use the house batteries?
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Mike and Trish wrote:rickswinn wrote:
The battery switch works in one direction, the house batteries help the chassis batteries if necessary, it doesn't work the other way around.
Are you sure about that? I've been told it works both ways, which makes sense to me -- that the switch momentarily connects both battery banks, as long as it's held down.
Emergency Start switches (almost ALL with a few exceptions) require the COACH batteries to be over 12 volts to ENGAGE the Boost solenoid. If your Coach batteries are dead or below 12 volts the Emergency start will NOT WORK. It takes the Coach batteries to supply power to the solenoid. Winnebago products had/have a DUAL/MOM switch that allowed reverse operation. IF your Coach batteries were DEAD, you put the switch in DUAL and that (when ign key ON) allowed the chassis to supply power to the Coach systems and coach batteries. On MOM (momentary) and this was spring loaded, it used the Coach batteries to engage the boost solenoid. Doug
