Electricity/inverter cycle at night time
Over the last 3 weeks the electricity in our RV has begun cycling and it seems to only occur at night and oddly enough since we came into Florida. We arrived in Pensacola about 3 weeks ago and at nig...
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enblethen wrote:
Is your an inverter/charger? Does your rig have a converter?
If you have an inverter/charger or a converter it sounds as though a battery is shorting out. The charge system energizes, shoots a charge to the battery and then shuts down. Battery drops a little and it cycles again.
Good question. Not completely sure. I have pulled the fuse box once in the rv and taken a look at what I assumed was the inverter sitting behind the fuse box. It looks like this:
http://www.tripplite.com/shared/other/features/RV1012ULHW-features.jpg
I definitely won't pretend I'm electrician (b/c I definitely am not), but the one time I looked it, it looked like the above image.
If you're assumption about the battery is correct, what would be the next step? Check the batteries? What typically causes this issue and why would it happen at night?
