My Jamboree Build

Its_Hondo wrote:
Well, I had some extra time this afternoon so I did a few things.

The previous owner told me that the Propane Gas Detector had a parasitic drain on the coach batteries. His solution was to remove it from the cabinet, disconnect it's wiring and then reinstall it when the RV wasn't being used. He'd reconnect it when he needed to use the RV.

When he told me that my first thought was to just add a switch to control the power to the detector.

So I removed the drawer that was above the detector and drilled a hole in the cabinet to mount the lighted rocker switch that I bought at O'Reiley Auto Parts. Then I spliced in control & ground wires to the switch -



Here is a pic of the detector reinstalled, the switch on and the detector power on -



The switch is low profile and mounted high enough off of the floor to not be accidentally kicked. Now I just flip the switch when ever I drive the Jamboree.

While I was at O'Reiley I picked up a short, flexible antenna to replace the stock GM antenna. The stock antenna was almost touching the overhead bunk area, and this seemed like the best solution.

My Jack in the Box dude fit too-

You can install a battery disconnect in the house battery circuit, as I did, to kill any and all parasitic battery drains. You can buy them at West Marine, eBay, Amazon probably any auto parts store. I went this route to ensure I would have all systems, appiances, etc, powered on when needed and any items that ran off of the house batteries would be 100% off when the battery disconnect was in the off position. I installed mine right inside the door to the side of the stair well. It is handy and out of the way.