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All_I_could_aff
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Sep 30, 2017

I'm trying to help a friend with his 2000 Fleetwood F53 V10

A good friend of mine called me in a panic. He needs to drive his Fleetwood bounder F53 V10 Home from his seasonal site this weekend and is having some trouble. It has a single 12 V chassis battery...
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Hank_MI
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Sep 30, 2017
As a note, the chassis battery is probably good. The converter via shore power can't supply enough current to start the engine so it must be drawing current from the chassis battery. Neither the converter nor the battery disconnect solenoid are designed to handle the current of the starter. That's why I suspect the chassis (Main) disconnect is off or the disconnect solenoid is bad.

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