Help with Electrical
Brand new here, brand new to RV's --- HELP
Recently acquired a 1989 Southwind, P-30. Was well taken care of its whole live. Owned it for 3 weeks and took it to a local shop to have it gone through, change fluids, convert the AC to R34, etc.
It was in the shop for a couple of weeks because of a delay in getting a part for the front end. They dropped it off at my house Later that day I started it up and noticed a strange noise, and electrical surging.. the interior lights, dash lights, headlights, etc. were surging. I took it in the following day, the mechanic opened it up, and diagnosed that the Battery Isolator Controller --- made by Intellitec --- was defective. I was there and watched him test it, and it was definitely the problem.
Took it home, plugged the RV into the outlet to keep the refrigerator running. Today we went to take a short trip for fireworks and it wouldn't start... nothing at all. Not even enough juice to turn anything on in the cab.
I took a battery charger out to see if I could jump start the battery and it gave a reading F02 - "Bad Battery Connection. Battery Voltage Too Low to Accept a Charge".
I have no idea what to do. Everything on this rig worked perfectly when I bought it, and when I played around with it for a couple of weeks in my driveway. As soon as I get it back from this shop I have this issue, and as far as I know they didn't do anything service wise that would have required fooling around with anything electrical except for the AC unit - they had to replace the condenser and some other parts. Aside fro the fact that they said that the replacement condenser they used failed, and had to get another one, I don't know what else they could have done that might have caused a problem.
I can't even get it started to take it in, so I guess I will probably have to have it towed. If you have ANY advice I would certainly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Recently acquired a 1989 Southwind, P-30. Was well taken care of its whole live. Owned it for 3 weeks and took it to a local shop to have it gone through, change fluids, convert the AC to R34, etc.
It was in the shop for a couple of weeks because of a delay in getting a part for the front end. They dropped it off at my house Later that day I started it up and noticed a strange noise, and electrical surging.. the interior lights, dash lights, headlights, etc. were surging. I took it in the following day, the mechanic opened it up, and diagnosed that the Battery Isolator Controller --- made by Intellitec --- was defective. I was there and watched him test it, and it was definitely the problem.
Took it home, plugged the RV into the outlet to keep the refrigerator running. Today we went to take a short trip for fireworks and it wouldn't start... nothing at all. Not even enough juice to turn anything on in the cab.
I took a battery charger out to see if I could jump start the battery and it gave a reading F02 - "Bad Battery Connection. Battery Voltage Too Low to Accept a Charge".
I have no idea what to do. Everything on this rig worked perfectly when I bought it, and when I played around with it for a couple of weeks in my driveway. As soon as I get it back from this shop I have this issue, and as far as I know they didn't do anything service wise that would have required fooling around with anything electrical except for the AC unit - they had to replace the condenser and some other parts. Aside fro the fact that they said that the replacement condenser they used failed, and had to get another one, I don't know what else they could have done that might have caused a problem.
I can't even get it started to take it in, so I guess I will probably have to have it towed. If you have ANY advice I would certainly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
