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Flyfasteddie
Explorer
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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JaxDad
Explorer III
Dec 22, 2014
Check that someone hasn't put in an extra shunt to run an accessory like the chassis radio so it will run off the house battery.

A friend had just such a situation. Someone had added a light wire, about 18 ga., so that the radio would operate with the key off. It only allowed a very slow drain on the chassis battery.

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