What is Eating Those Batteries?
I went to Quartzite yesterday to visit an old friend who is dry-camping on BLM land and has been having some electrical problems with his travel trailer, a 2001 KZ model. The problem is that even wit...
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Ron Nielson wrote:BFL13 wrote:Ron Nielson wrote:
....... He had another circuit outside the circuits thru the converter/charger. It had been disconnected at the time we were working on it.
Was it (whatever it does) connected when his batteries were running down so fast though?
The circuit was for an inverter, about 1400 watts if I remember correctly. No, it was not hooked up in that the ground wire to the battery had pulled out of the crimp-on wiring connector.
Be sure that the "ground wire" that was not connected was the neg wire for the inverter DC input and not just the "chassis ground" for the inverter casing. Confirm there is no other neg path by trying to turn on the inverter.
Even if the inverter were still hooked up it would have to have an AC load running to pull anything much from the battery. Anyway I would be suspicious of this inverter deal until checked more.
The usual reason for a battery bank to discharge faster than expected is sulfation so it has less capacity but goes through the voltages from full to 50% in the normal way. But these are brand new batteries. You say "even with" these. So the same thing was happening with his previous set of batteries and the new ones didn't help?
