Gun or Tears -- HELP PLZ!!!
I'm either going to take a gun to my TH or start crying in frustration.
Bought a TH in January. It sat until now. I'm trying to get it ready to go, and was going to driveway camp tonight.
Only the batteries were completely dead and had frozen over the winter. Took them to Wallyworld and had them tested and they tested fine (disaster averted, right?), so I charged them up and plugged them back in, plugged into shore power, turned on the propane, and was ready to chill for the night.
Only my CO detector wouldn't shut the F up. I immediately disconnected the batteries and took them to the charger, and disconnected shore to shut the bloody CO detector up. They both showed 65%. I plugged the TH back into shore to see what the CO detector did. It sat and flashed a green light. I thought it might be propane venting into the TH somehow, so I turned the propane off and bled the lines.
Then I went to reconnect the batteries and **** went wrong. I connected the negs and the first positive. Then I went to connect the parallel positive to the battery and sparks everywhere (yes, I know I did this wrong, don't be a dick and harp on that). So I immediately disconnected the negs, disconnected shore power, and connected the positive parallel. All good. Well, the positive terminal on the second battery was missing a chunk of the threads, but the bolt went on. I then tried to connect the first negative, and it kept sparking...small sparks, but sparking. I tried touching it on the frame to ground it, I made sure everything inside the TH was off, I let it sit for a while to calm down, and I Googled. Google said "no worries, it happens some times." So I went ahead and bolted that neg down. I then went to connect the parallel neg and it sparked like no one's business again and ate away part of the terminal connector metal again.
I've reverse order disconnected both batteries, and all is good for now, but I'm ready to put the whole thing up for sale as "new never used." Short of hauling it into the RV dealer and telling them to fix it, I don't know what to do. HELP!!!!!!! I've been trying to get answers/help from another forum for more than 24 hours, and the assistance provided has ranged from "go search the forum" (which I did) to "is the dog farting?" I get that I'm a total Noob, but I'm trying to learn without killing myself in the process.
Bought a TH in January. It sat until now. I'm trying to get it ready to go, and was going to driveway camp tonight.
Only the batteries were completely dead and had frozen over the winter. Took them to Wallyworld and had them tested and they tested fine (disaster averted, right?), so I charged them up and plugged them back in, plugged into shore power, turned on the propane, and was ready to chill for the night.
Only my CO detector wouldn't shut the F up. I immediately disconnected the batteries and took them to the charger, and disconnected shore to shut the bloody CO detector up. They both showed 65%. I plugged the TH back into shore to see what the CO detector did. It sat and flashed a green light. I thought it might be propane venting into the TH somehow, so I turned the propane off and bled the lines.
Then I went to reconnect the batteries and **** went wrong. I connected the negs and the first positive. Then I went to connect the parallel positive to the battery and sparks everywhere (yes, I know I did this wrong, don't be a dick and harp on that). So I immediately disconnected the negs, disconnected shore power, and connected the positive parallel. All good. Well, the positive terminal on the second battery was missing a chunk of the threads, but the bolt went on. I then tried to connect the first negative, and it kept sparking...small sparks, but sparking. I tried touching it on the frame to ground it, I made sure everything inside the TH was off, I let it sit for a while to calm down, and I Googled. Google said "no worries, it happens some times." So I went ahead and bolted that neg down. I then went to connect the parallel neg and it sparked like no one's business again and ate away part of the terminal connector metal again.
I've reverse order disconnected both batteries, and all is good for now, but I'm ready to put the whole thing up for sale as "new never used." Short of hauling it into the RV dealer and telling them to fix it, I don't know what to do. HELP!!!!!!! I've been trying to get answers/help from another forum for more than 24 hours, and the assistance provided has ranged from "go search the forum" (which I did) to "is the dog farting?" I get that I'm a total Noob, but I'm trying to learn without killing myself in the process.
