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Fastfwd75
Explorer
Jun 10, 2014

Battery was doing fine on the fan but the lights deadly

Was testing my battery for future dry camp use. Had the vent fan on for 5 hours and the battery still showed full. Added 3 lights fixtures(total 6x921 bulbs) for 40 minutes. The battery shows 1/3 f...
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Gene_Ginny
Explorer
Jun 10, 2014
Fastfwd75 wrote:
...The battery shows 1/3 full with everything on; completely full as soon as I turn off the lights. ....
6 bulbs would be 8.4 amps total draw. If the voltage rise is instant when you turn off the lights, I would look for a bad connection in the discharge path causing a large voltage drop to be seen by the monitor panel.

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