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joebedford
Nomad II
Apr 07, 2018

Do battery cutoffs and auto-reset breakers ...

...fail in such a way that they reduce battery capacity? I put a brand new battery in my rig but this morning 20 minutes of furnace dropped the voltage enough that the main circuit breaker tripped ...
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joebedford
Nomad II
Apr 08, 2018
MrWizard wrote:
it could be you have some electrical mis-wire problems
Could be.

The battery negative has one cable that goes to the frame and one that goes to generator start.

The battery positive has one cable that goes to the battery cutoff and one that goes to generator start.

When I changed the relay, I put the copper stud on the copper relay bus and the output from the cutoff switch to that stud. The house feed went to the silver stud of that relay.

Didn't change anything else.

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