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synergy_58
Explorer
Feb 18, 2014

Winter storage, battery too week to start. How to charge?

Greetings all! Hope this is the right place to post this. I have a 2009 Itasca (Winny) Navion, with MB diesel. I'm up in Anchorage Alaska and had to place the RV in storage back in Oct 2013. It was w...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Feb 18, 2014
If it is 16 out charge soonest.

On many motor homes the house batteries are easy to access, The chassis, not so much, If this is the case put a smart charger, say 30 amps, on the HOUSE batteries for at least a few hours, then use the buton on the dash, it may say AUX-START, EMER-START or BOOST, and hold it for like 30 seconds,, Then release it for 30 seconds, hold it again and start that sucker up

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