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AnEv942
Jun 30, 2013Nomad
realter wrote:
Last summer, after sitting on the truck for 6 weeks, both the truck battery and camper battery were dead. I believe I had disconnected the fuse. I charged the truck battery, but the camper battery never fully charged after that. When I stored it for the winter, the battery was fully charged, but within a few weeks it was "dead".
Last winter, I had a local camper dealer install something that prevented the camper battery from pulling the juice out of the truck camper. I don't have the reciept right now, but I hope whatever they did helps with that problem. Somebody told me I should have disconnected the "umbical cord" between the camper and the truck also.
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Well my truck will pull the batteries down in a couple of weeks. Sounds likes like an isolator of some type was installed between camper and truck. If you previoulsy didnt have something, truck and camper batteries tied together-yes the truck would pull down camper batteries with it (and more common camper usage pulls truck down).
With the 'fuse' pulled sounds like it only kills camper-but was still tied to truck. That scenerio yes pulling the cord would have prevented-hopefully that resolved. Once you get camper battery going easy enough to verify what it does/is. Im actually leaning toward last summers episode killed the battery-installed gizmo a day late. Unless it was installed the previous winter-before the 6 weeks episode?
Not quite following the time line. I dont know what the fuse is-just need to verify that camper battery is positively dissconected.
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