thefuzz4
Apr 21, 2016Explorer
[SOLVED]New Class C Owner Power Issues
Hey there everyone,
So we just upgraded from a popup to our first RV. We got a 1996 Coachman Leprechaun.
So after leaving it plugged into the house for several days we noticed that the batteries just kept getting lower and lower on their charge.
With our popup when we had it plugged in we could hear the converter knocking the voltage down with a suttle hum, however with this I can't hear any sound at all coming out of it and I've taken a voltmeter to the batteries while it was plugged in to see if there was any signs of juice going to the batteries and it just reads in at 9v which I know is a bad place for the batteries to be at. We also noticed that while plugged into shore power it is only powering the 110 items and nothing 12v. Same goes when we fire up the generator as well which leads me to believe that the converter is bad.
So coming from the popup world over to this new world brings me with new questions. The popup was easy it just ran off of its battery and it was happy.
This we now have either shore or gen power along with the batteries and I know that there is a ATS switch to transfer the power between shore and gen.
I firmly believe that I am in need of a new converter for this. Does the power converter contain the ATS inside of it? Or is this a separate device elsewhere? I know that the ATS works because well we watched it tonight do its magic.
We looked at this http://amzn.com/B004LF14Q4 but since I wasn't sure if the ATS was included inside of this or not I just don't know lol.
If not does anyone have any recommendations on a converter that will get the job done. Thank you all in advance for your help with this.
EDIT: Also wanted to mention that when we run the main engine it does charge the batteries. We let it run today for like 45mins while we were doing other things inside of it and it brought the Batteries back up to the G (Good) level on the tester. I didn't stick a volt meter back on them when we shut it back off but I did make sure to turn off the battery disconnect. We did also find some terminal connections under the step that are a bit corroded so thats on our list of things to replace here soon before our first trip.
So we just upgraded from a popup to our first RV. We got a 1996 Coachman Leprechaun.
So after leaving it plugged into the house for several days we noticed that the batteries just kept getting lower and lower on their charge.
With our popup when we had it plugged in we could hear the converter knocking the voltage down with a suttle hum, however with this I can't hear any sound at all coming out of it and I've taken a voltmeter to the batteries while it was plugged in to see if there was any signs of juice going to the batteries and it just reads in at 9v which I know is a bad place for the batteries to be at. We also noticed that while plugged into shore power it is only powering the 110 items and nothing 12v. Same goes when we fire up the generator as well which leads me to believe that the converter is bad.
So coming from the popup world over to this new world brings me with new questions. The popup was easy it just ran off of its battery and it was happy.
This we now have either shore or gen power along with the batteries and I know that there is a ATS switch to transfer the power between shore and gen.
I firmly believe that I am in need of a new converter for this. Does the power converter contain the ATS inside of it? Or is this a separate device elsewhere? I know that the ATS works because well we watched it tonight do its magic.
We looked at this http://amzn.com/B004LF14Q4 but since I wasn't sure if the ATS was included inside of this or not I just don't know lol.
If not does anyone have any recommendations on a converter that will get the job done. Thank you all in advance for your help with this.
EDIT: Also wanted to mention that when we run the main engine it does charge the batteries. We let it run today for like 45mins while we were doing other things inside of it and it brought the Batteries back up to the G (Good) level on the tester. I didn't stick a volt meter back on them when we shut it back off but I did make sure to turn off the battery disconnect. We did also find some terminal connections under the step that are a bit corroded so thats on our list of things to replace here soon before our first trip.