DC power issues- any advice?
We have a 5th wheel with two 6-volt batteries (6 month old Interstate) hooked in parallel and a 6 month old Intellipower 9200 converter. Power issues are fine when generator is on or when hooked to s...
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Vroadracer wrote:
1. I made a tester with a 12 volt signal light by putting a clip lead to the positive wire of the signal light and another clip lead to the ground wire of the signal light.
2. Next turn the 12 switch off at your fuse box. Then remove all of the fuses (keep up with the position they were in before they were removed) and check to make sure they are all good and that none of them are blown?
3. Then disconnect the ground cable from the battery that is grounded to the frame of the 5th wheel. Now take your tester and connect one lead to the end of the disconnected ground cable and the other clip lead to the ground terminal of the battery.
4. Now you can insert one fuse at a time back into the fuse holder. After you put the fuse back in, go look at the test light bulb. If it is glowing, then that circuit is drawing current from your battery. The brighter the light the more current it is drawing. You can test the circuits one at a time so you can tell if you have more than one circuit that is drawing current from your batteries.
That is the way I found that I had a malfunction in my Arctic Pac on my 5th wheel as it would draw my batteries from 12.6 volt down to 10.5 volts overnight with nothing powered by 12 volts being turned on at the time.
I hope this helps you to find your problem.
Vroadracer
Dickson, TN
Great explanation- we will definitely give this a test!
