Does Chassis batteries charge when plugged in

RLS7201 wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

camp104 wrote:
Listen to Ona Quest. He sent me the link on the BCC and I have the same problem on my 05 Bounder 35E. Bought it new and the coach and chassis batteries always were charged when hooked up to shore power or on gen. I am not to good on electronics and have an extended warranty so it is in the shop as we speak. I bet your auxiliary boost is not working either?
TOM

I wonder if its just specific models. I know our neighbours discovery doesn't have the circuitry to charge the chassis batterys and he uses a trikl start type product. He does have the aux boost relay obviously.

By the way, Your location kinda threw me a bit. I thought you were from French Canada with a location like "La Canada" Then I figured out the gender was wrong (Le Canada for Canada) and it was the Spanish spelling La Cañada with the ñ. Then the California made sense. I googled it. I never knew there was a place called La Cañada in California, and only a couple hours from us in Palm Springs.

Sorry, just found it amusing.

John

Hi John,

Ona Quest has it right. Your neighbors Discovery is not working as designed by Fleetwood.

Richard Shields
95 Bounder
PT Cruiser
2 Segways.

Thanks Richard. I'll walk over later today or tomorrow and do some snooping. I didn't see a BCC like the one in our coach but then again, it is a different chassis and everything is on the other side. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place and for the wrong thing. :) His batteries are under the bedroom slide and a little little tougher to get at. Now I'm afraid if we find the BCC we'll want to fix it. I'll look for fuses. Should be fun. We'll bring a marguerita. :)

RLS7201 wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

camp104 wrote:
Listen to Ona Quest. He sent me the link on the BCC and I have the same problem on my 05 Bounder 35E. Bought it new and the coach and chassis batteries always were charged when hooked up to shore power or on gen. I am not to good on electronics and have an extended warranty so it is in the shop as we speak. I bet your auxiliary boost is not working either?
TOM

I wonder if its just specific models. I know our neighbours discovery doesn't have the circuitry to charge the chassis batterys and he uses a trikl start type product. He does have the aux boost relay obviously.

By the way, Your location kinda threw me a bit. I thought you were from French Canada with a location like "La Canada" Then I figured out the gender was wrong (Le Canada for Canada) and it was the Spanish spelling La Cañada with the ñ. Then the California made sense. I googled it. I never knew there was a place called La Cañada in California, and only a couple hours from us in Palm Springs.

Sorry, just found it amusing.

John

Hi John,

Ona Quest has it right. Your neighbors Discovery is not working as designed by Fleetwood.

Richard Shields
95 Bounder
PT Cruiser
2 Segways.

The OP is well aware of the fact it use to do that from factory
It does not now and its simpler in most cases to just plug in a mini
battery minder system that cost like 30$ and be done with it
I have a MH that retails for 400K and thats what it uses from the factory and works extremly well

John & Angela wrote:

camp104 wrote:
Listen to Ona Quest. He sent me the link on the BCC and I have the same problem on my 05 Bounder 35E. Bought it new and the coach and chassis batteries always were charged when hooked up to shore power or on gen. I am not to good on electronics and have an extended warranty so it is in the shop as we speak. I bet your auxiliary boost is not working either?
TOM

I wonder if its just specific models. I know our neighbours discovery doesn't have the circuitry to charge the chassis batterys and he uses a trikl start type product. He does have the aux boost relay obviously.

By the way, Your location kinda threw me a bit. I thought you were from French Canada with a location like "La Canada" Then I figured out the gender was wrong (Le Canada for Canada) and it was the Spanish spelling La Cañada with the ñ. Then the California made sense. I googled it. I never knew there was a place called La Cañada in California, and only a couple hours from us in Palm Springs.

Sorry, just found it amusing.

John

Hi John,

Ona Quest has it right. Your neighbors Discovery is not working as designed by Fleetwood.

Richard Shields
95 Bounder
PT Cruiser
2 Segways.

Are you sure it doesn't have the circuitry?...or has it just never worked?

My BCC had a blown fuse, forget the number, that caused this issue. Replaced the fuse, all good.

Jim

camp104 wrote:
Listen to Ona Quest. He sent me the link on the BCC and I have the same problem on my 05 Bounder 35E. Bought it new and the coach and chassis batteries always were charged when hooked up to shore power or on gen. I am not to good on electronics and have an extended warranty so it is in the shop as we speak. I bet your auxiliary boost is not working either?
TOM

I wonder if its just specific models. I know our neighbours discovery doesn't have the circuitry to charge the chassis batterys and he uses a trikl start type product. He does have the aux boost relay obviously.

By the way, Your location kinda threw me a bit. I thought you were from French Canada with a location like "La Canada" Then I figured out the gender was wrong (Le Canada for Canada) and it was the Spanish spelling La Cañada with the ñ. Then the California made sense. I googled it. I never knew there was a place called La Cañada in California, and only a couple hours from us in Palm Springs.

Sorry, just found it amusing.

John

Listen to Ona Quest. He sent me the link on the BCC and I have the same problem on my 05 Bounder 35E. Bought it new and the coach and chassis batteries always were charged when hooked up to shore power or on gen. I am not to good on electronics and have an extended warranty so it is in the shop as we speak. I bet your auxiliary boost is not working either?
TOM

junkyardcat wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

junkyardcat wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
Hi,

The Trik-L-Start will work. The tech does not understand you are not attempting to "boost" the chassis battery with the Trik-L-Start.

Some RV's do have the ability to charge the chassis batteries while plugged in.

Totally agree with the above. The tech may have thought you were attempting to charge the batteries when in fact all you are trying to do is maintain an existing charge. The trikl start among others is a very good solution for your situation.

Although some coaches have systems that charge the chassis batteries after the coach batteries are charged I don't believe yours is one of them. There is a forum member named Bounder Lew who has a lot of knowledge on the bounder line that may be able to give a better answer.

I do beleive the OP question has already been thourghly answered in previous posts.Surely any tech worth his salt would have quized him as to what he needed the battery minder system for?

yes but as you pointed out maybe it wasn't a tech worth his salt. :)

Yes I agree.You say you have been in sales so iam pretty you see alot of that in your field of work

Well I can't say I have seen a lot of bad techs but I have seen more than a few mis-communications between customer and service manager or tech I am sure It happens in all trades. :)

Get the Trik-L-Start, ignor the tech.

John & Angela wrote:

junkyardcat wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
Hi,

The Trik-L-Start will work. The tech does not understand you are not attempting to "boost" the chassis battery with the Trik-L-Start.

Some RV's do have the ability to charge the chassis batteries while plugged in.

Totally agree with the above. The tech may have thought you were attempting to charge the batteries when in fact all you are trying to do is maintain an existing charge. The trikl start among others is a very good solution for your situation.

Although some coaches have systems that charge the chassis batteries after the coach batteries are charged I don't believe yours is one of them. There is a forum member named Bounder Lew who has a lot of knowledge on the bounder line that may be able to give a better answer.

I do beleive the OP question has already been thourghly answered in previous posts.Surely any tech worth his salt would have quized him as to what he needed the battery minder system for?

yes but as you pointed out maybe it wasn't a tech worth his salt. :)

Yes I agree.You say you have been in sales so iam pretty you see alot of that in your field of work

junkyardcat wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

pianotuna wrote:
Hi,

The Trik-L-Start will work. The tech does not understand you are not attempting to "boost" the chassis battery with the Trik-L-Start.

Some RV's do have the ability to charge the chassis batteries while plugged in.

Totally agree with the above. The tech may have thought you were attempting to charge the batteries when in fact all you are trying to do is maintain an existing charge. The trikl start among others is a very good solution for your situation.

Although some coaches have systems that charge the chassis batteries after the coach batteries are charged I don't believe yours is one of them. There is a forum member named Bounder Lew who has a lot of knowledge on the bounder line that may be able to give a better answer.

I do beleive the OP question has already been thourghly answered in previous posts.Surely any tech worth his salt would have quized him as to what he needed the battery minder system for?

yes but as you pointed out maybe it wasn't a tech worth his salt. :)