Brand new battery dies quickly
Hi. I bought a 2006 weekend warrior fk1900 super lite used. The battery would drain overnight. Only the furnace, fridge, and detectors were on during this time.. I bought a brand new battery, and ...
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Jack004 wrote:
So it is possible that it is the furnace drawing too much current. I still haven't had the chance to test out the circuits.
If I were to guess - not much else can be done at the moment - I would think that abnormally high current of furnace is less likely than battery incompletely charged before the night. Generator run a few hours in daytime will not charge battery full 100% - this time it's not a guess.
Or it was not "completely" (i.e. 90%) discharged when you thought it was.
Or there were more loads than just fridge, furnace and detectors. 80AH battery has mere 40-50 AH of usable charge. 2 dome lights with regular incandescent bulbs run for 2 hours will consume 30% of that, and I have a gut feeling that you were not using candles :)
Most likely, - all of the above: not fully charged, not fully discharged, and more loads than initially mentioned.
