Troubleshooting Coach Battery Issue
I have a 2010 Pleasure-Way, Ford E-350 chassis. Recently, I plugged in the shore power cable to make sure the coach battery is fully charged and left it plugged in overnight. This morning, I unplugged...
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Returning as promised. After a frustrating search to find the problem, including digging into where I probably shouldn't have been digging, I was about to resign myself to taking out all my life savings and taking the rig to a repair shop. As a last ditch effort, I called Pleasure-Way and spoke to a tech issues guy named Michael, eh?
He told me that it was most likely that the converter circuit breaker was tripped. Now, I was trained as a house electrician, but have little experience with DC, and DC breakers look nothing like house breakers. He told me to look for a "little button sticking out" and to push it back in, because sometimes when shore power is disconnected, the breaker will trip. I peered at the bloody thing for several minutes without seeing any button, then happened to lean in a little further to where the other side of the breaker wasn't in the flashlight's shadow, and whaddya know: there it was! Reset the breaker, plugged shore power back in and immediately saw 13.8VDC at the battery.
So all is well again and I was able to avoid a second mortgage for repairs. Thanks again the the help.
He told me that it was most likely that the converter circuit breaker was tripped. Now, I was trained as a house electrician, but have little experience with DC, and DC breakers look nothing like house breakers. He told me to look for a "little button sticking out" and to push it back in, because sometimes when shore power is disconnected, the breaker will trip. I peered at the bloody thing for several minutes without seeing any button, then happened to lean in a little further to where the other side of the breaker wasn't in the flashlight's shadow, and whaddya know: there it was! Reset the breaker, plugged shore power back in and immediately saw 13.8VDC at the battery.
So all is well again and I was able to avoid a second mortgage for repairs. Thanks again the the help.
