Needing help, evacuated, battery dead
Sorry, longer post; I am in Oregon with fires. No electricity for 5 days now. Used generator on RV chassis to run freezers in my home for 3 days (about 4 hrs a day) via extension cords. RV house batt...
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opnspaces wrote:
You do not need a second generator.
Where or how would you hook this second generator up? However you are envisioning hooking up the second generator will be the same for the existing generator.
Number one, turn off the generator, find the circuit breakers in the house and find the one that is tripped and not charging the battery. If you can't find the specific charger circuit breaker then turn them all off.
Now push extra hard on any breakers that seem to be springy or have any sponginess until it snaps all the way off. Now turn all the breakers back on.
Once the breakers are all back on, turn on a light or two and maybe turn on a ventilation fan as well. Now start the generator and see if the fan speeds up and the lights get brighter. If the fan speeds up and the lights get brighter you have probably fixed the house battery charging.
If you still can't get the house battery charging, then buy one of these Link, and plug it into the trailer or directly into your generator. Then plug the trailer shore power cord into the end. This will charge your house battery until you can get a multimeter.
Second generator was going to be for home, to handle freezer/frig in outage in future instead of using RV generator to keep them running.
Thanks for the steps! I will try that.
