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toyotaspeed90
May 28, 2013Explorer
So - I'm a little frustrated with the motorhome at the time being (just in terms of battery power). ((As a side note I'm extremely pleased with the reliability it gave us.... sitting in long traffic due to the bridge collapse, driving freely down the highway, driving up and down a mountain pass all while towing a somewhat heavy 4x4 vehicle)).
Brand new deep cell installed last Wednesday - it was tested as being in great shape, vehicle was plugged in all night Thursday. Filled the LPG tank around noon on Friday.
By Saturday night the battery was low. We weren't running the furnace and lights were only on sporatically and never for any long duration.
Ran the generator (was able to get it started by using the emergency start button for the reverse intention... IE started the vehicle, hit the switch and had someone start the generator) for about an hour - the battery upon shutting off showed as "Good".
Sunday I got back from wheeling at about 7pm and was told mid-day the battery died and they couldn't start the generator.
Again I got the generator going, ran it for about an hour and all was well.
Driving home yesterday, Monday, and the house battery died again while going down the road.
The only power we were taking was charging 1 phone and the fridge - which I'm assuming when running on LPG that the only electrics running in the fridge is the ignitor and the thermostats.
Thoughts?
Brand new deep cell installed last Wednesday - it was tested as being in great shape, vehicle was plugged in all night Thursday. Filled the LPG tank around noon on Friday.
By Saturday night the battery was low. We weren't running the furnace and lights were only on sporatically and never for any long duration.
Ran the generator (was able to get it started by using the emergency start button for the reverse intention... IE started the vehicle, hit the switch and had someone start the generator) for about an hour - the battery upon shutting off showed as "Good".
Sunday I got back from wheeling at about 7pm and was told mid-day the battery died and they couldn't start the generator.
Again I got the generator going, ran it for about an hour and all was well.
Driving home yesterday, Monday, and the house battery died again while going down the road.
The only power we were taking was charging 1 phone and the fridge - which I'm assuming when running on LPG that the only electrics running in the fridge is the ignitor and the thermostats.
Thoughts?
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