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D_E_Bishop
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Nov 20, 2017

Alternator Not Charging House Batteries While Driving

See the third reply. Last December I was trying to find the location of the BIRD in my Adventurer, dougrainer helped me out with an explanation of battery charging in a Winnebago. Instead of a B...
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scrubjaysnest
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Nov 21, 2017
Although our set up is different then yours, we had a similar problem. The B.I.R.D was wired to the wrong side of the relay that isolates cranking from house batteries. In our case neither the converter or the solar would charge the cranking battery because the B.I.R.D never saw a high enough voltage to start timing.

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