acc lps fuse, battery starting hesitations

kimberlysmoore wrote:

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Have your mechanic get that camera off that ACC fuse ASAP. Some of those fuses feed the engine control unit ECU meaning VEHICLE ENGINE COMPUTER.. vehicles no longer have simple schmatics nor interprable designations for fuses. The reverse light may or may not have their own factory relay. You can Not tap into this circuit BEFORE the relay if it has one. You gotcha one potatohead mechanic.

I really appreciate everyones advice to go back and kick "my" mechanic in the head but he's long gone. Charged me too much, never finished the job (2 side cameras and a roof frontal camera on the same monitor that he never installed). We all learn our lessons. Mine have been huge. We bought an old RV with few miles, massive water damage, hired a mobile mechanic that we've known for years who (btw) was a police force mechanic for over 30 years so he's not an total idiot just not RV informed. He wired us like a cop car.
We moved into our RV full time pulling way too much weight behind it.
The transmission needs servicing, the brakes need servicing, my job is gone, my house is gone, I have a small storage, my RV, my car, my pets, my children. Taking this all 1 day at a time.

Some of these explanations on how to fix my things are above my head and I read the advice with the internet close at hand to define a ton of the lingo.
There is no more mechanic and no more money. It's all me and my kids.
Some things I know I can fix, some things I have to learn to fix, and some things I have to send to a professional. I get it.

I want to thank everyone for all the advice and direction. It's much needed and much appreciated.

I think you may be at a point where it might be better to divest yourself from the RV and seek a better living arrangement, if possible. Trying to get a whole vehicle repair education, and implementing repairs or maintenance without a budget is going to be a very risky business. To overcome the immediate battery draining issue, I'd suggest to remove the camera's power wires for the short term.

If you know the transmission and brakes are not operating correctly, I'd suggest not to venture forth. Depending on your current parking situation, making due with what's at hand or moving only a short distance may be your only options.