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Flyfasteddie
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Dec 22, 2014

Using house battery graduall discharges chassis battery?

My 89 Montara class C has one house battery and one chassis battery tied together by a continuous duty solenoid that is manually activated by a toggle switch. The solenoid was originally activated by...
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tenbear
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Dec 22, 2014
Maybe your solenoid has a high resistance (compared to a dead short) when open. With this high resistance the chassis battery would, over time, try to be at the same level as the house battery. This leakage across the solenoid could have some qualities of a diode, thus the .1v difference in the level.

Pretty much a guess.

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