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mdecorso
Explorer
Nov 13, 2015

House battery not charging properly. Bypass solenoid?

I am having some difficulty getting my house battery in my 1992 Ford E350 Class C Four Winds to charge properly. I think the solenoid between the engine battery and house battery is failing. On th...
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Sam_Spade
Explorer
Nov 14, 2015
mdecorso wrote:
With generator on I am getting 13+ at the car battery, and then fluctuations of 11.82 to 12.04 at the house battery.


I think this means that your house batteries are DEAD and you don't have a good connection at or near them somewhere.

In order to get things back to a workable situation you may HAVE to charge your house batteries with an external charger somehow to be sure that they will take and hold a charge.

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