Dummy left his lights on all day.

Tom/Barb,

You do realize that you are the first people to ever make this mistake? (Actually, I bet you are not the first even today.)

I will never have such a problem for 2 very good reasons:
I seldom drive because my wife like to drive the coach.
My coach has three batteries, main engine, house and generator.
(I wouldn't what to have you think that I have not has to test all of these, just to make sure it can really work. uh-hu)

Matt

Our coach is a year 2000, no fancy stuff, just a great old brick simply dependable Newmar, that seems to survive all our mistakes.
Our chassis battery is a 24v truck battery bought 2 years ago, but it will not burn the headlights all day, It's not supposed to. Anyone who can must have a battery the size of a coffin.

azdryheat wrote:
I and others have wondered why motorhome builders can't/won't install some driving amenities into their $300k coaches, like automatic headlights. Wouldn't that be a novel idea.

Our previous coach, a '99 Fleetwood Bounder 34V with the F-53 chassis and Triton V-10 had "Daytime runners" that were 70% of headlight full brightness. Our present coach, an '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330HP CAT, also has daytime runners that are a percentage of full brightness.

We sold that Bounder over 7 years ago so, I can't remember if it had an alarm if I manually turned the headlights on and, shut down the engine. But, our present coach, the Itasca, DOES have an alarm if I've turned the headlights on and shut down the engine. But, in both cases or, both motorhomes I should say, when it came to early ( pre dawn ) or night time driving, I still had and have to, turn the headlights on.
Scott

Tiffin didn't put a light warning system in our 2013 Powerglide Allegro Bus. About $10 worth of parts and some wire and I made one.

azdryheat wrote:
I and others have wondered why motorhome builders can't/won't install some driving amenities into their $300k coaches, like automatic headlights. Wouldn't that be a novel idea.

Our Revolution has automatic headlights.

down home wrote:
My chassis battery weighs way over 100 lbs. I've forgotten the exact weight or the amps. You could run the headlights and rears and markers for month or better perhaps.Might want to check your battery condition?
We had it go bad not long after buying it because Dealer took no care of his wares.
Hit the rocker switch to house batteries and it fired right up. We can start the gen or the coach with the house batteries if necessary.

She said 'coach' but I'm pretty sure she meant 'chassis/engine' battery

headlights are not / should not be connected to house/coach

but 'Docking lights' are often on the house system

I haven’t done anything dumb...in quite a while. (I’m overdue)

I and others have wondered why motorhome builders can't/won't install some driving amenities into their $300k coaches, like automatic headlights. Wouldn't that be a novel idea.

If I leave the lights on with the engine off , my MH starts beeeeping at me !
Siggy

My chassis battery weighs way over 100 lbs. I've forgotten the exact weight or the amps. You could run the headlights and rears and markers for month or better perhaps.Might want to check your battery condition?
We had it go bad not long after buying it because Dealer took no care of his wares.
Hit the rocker switch to house batteries and it fired right up. We can start the gen or the coach with the house batteries if necessary.