Yesterday had my dealer install a battery disconnect for the coach battery. Brought the coach home and plugged it into my home's power supply. This morning I discovered a strong sulfur smell and discovered my house batteries were very warm and moist. I unplugged the RV immediately. Cells were virtually all dry.Dealer seems to think installing the battery disconnect has nothing to do with my problem today. I have now added water to all the cells (all were dry) and I am plugging the RV back to my house power. Any suggestions? One other point, last night by accident I hit the inverter power-on button. Turned it right back off a second later when I realized I hit the wrong button. Seems hard to believe this battery problem isn't related to one or the other issue. Any ideas?

Update...I am pretty sure that the levels were not checked prior to the install of the cutoff switch. The coach batter is a gel battery. The house batteries are what I am having problems with and they are not gel batteries.After topping off the fluids, and plugging back in, the problem started back within 30 minutes.So I am back to square one now.

Check your converter output. A bad capacitor in the converter can cook your batteries. Been there done that took 3 repair guys to figure that one out. :(

For the 4 days, the RV stayed hooked up at the dealership.... they were doing other minor things. The last day they hooked up the battery disconnect. So the whole time it was plugged up everything worked fine. Still scratching my head on what to do next.

Was it a reliable dealer? The problem could have just shown up because you haven't checked your batteries often enough. OR, The guy working on your RV pulled out your batteries to mount the switch for safety and intentionally or unintentionally swapped out your batteries with someone elses RV, maybe his own.

I feel good about the integrity of the dealership. I am sure they did take one out to give some working room for the coach battery.I agree I haven't checked the levels in some time. But it still just seems too coincidental that the problem has surfaced now.

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gjtrafl
Explorer
Jan 15, 2016
I know ZERO about batteries... but I do think in the end it will prove to be some issue with the new cutoff switch... a compatibility issue or something as you mentioned DREWE
DrewE
Explorer II
Jan 15, 2016
I agree with rockhillmanor; it sure sounds like something is not good with the converter. What model of converter is it? What voltage is it putting out?

Possibly it's in need of replacement, and just happened to die at about the same time as the work was being done. Possibly it's not wired correctly to use the disconnect switch (particularly if it's a very old design with a separate charging output).
gjtrafl
Explorer
Jan 15, 2016
I feel good about the integrity of the dealership. I am sure they did take one out to give some working room for the coach battery.

I agree I haven't checked the levels in some time. But it still just seems too coincidental that the problem has surfaced now.
WyoTraveler
Explorer
Jan 15, 2016
Was it a reliable dealer? The problem could have just shown up because you haven't checked your batteries often enough. OR, The guy working on your RV pulled out your batteries to mount the switch for safety and intentionally or unintentionally swapped out your batteries with someone elses RV, maybe his own.
gjtrafl
Explorer
Jan 15, 2016
For the 4 days, the RV stayed hooked up at the dealership.... they were doing other minor things. The last day they hooked up the battery disconnect. So the whole time it was plugged up everything worked fine.

Still scratching my head on what to do next.
rockhillmanor
Explorer
Jan 15, 2016
Check your converter output. A bad capacitor in the converter can cook your batteries. Been there done that took 3 repair guys to figure that one out. :(
gjtrafl
Explorer
Jan 15, 2016
Update...

I am pretty sure that the levels were not checked prior to the install of the cutoff switch. The coach batter is a gel battery. The house batteries are what I am having problems with and they are not gel batteries.

After topping off the fluids, and plugging back in, the problem started back within 30 minutes.

So I am back to square one now.

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