New Battery boiling
I purchased all new batteries for my coach and chassis. I hooked them up and went to test the slide. The slide worked as it should but my son was standing by the battery compartment, which is still ...
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were you plugged into shore power?
I would verify the battery hookup. On trailers it's usually black is positive and white is negative. I'm not sure if that holds true for motorhomes.
Do you have a meter that you can use to do a continuity check between the wires you were using on the negative post and a good ground point? you should have almost no resistance with that measurement. If you are reading high resistance or even OL you are checking a positive wire. make sure you are checking the wire to ground, DO NOT put either probe on a battery terminal or you'll blow a fuse or fry the meter.
I would verify the battery hookup. On trailers it's usually black is positive and white is negative. I'm not sure if that holds true for motorhomes.
Do you have a meter that you can use to do a continuity check between the wires you were using on the negative post and a good ground point? you should have almost no resistance with that measurement. If you are reading high resistance or even OL you are checking a positive wire. make sure you are checking the wire to ground, DO NOT put either probe on a battery terminal or you'll blow a fuse or fry the meter.
