Battery question
My wife and I picked up our 2017 Forest River Flagstaff Microlite 23LB this past weekend. At the dealer, they had it plugged in to 30 amp power and had the AC on. They also demonstrated how everything...
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gmckenzie wrote:bt41 wrote:
Does your fridge have a climate control switch in it. Had what seems like the same problem, less than a day batteries were dead. Figure it got turned on when we were cleaning the fridge.
Or the fridge has the heater, but no way to turn it off. Dometic did that on a lot of fridges, mine included.
My Dometic fridge is the same; it has a DC powered heater element with no way to switch it off. A simple toggle switch from Radio Shack took care of that parasitic drag and makes quite a difference on the longevity of the batteries between charges. I also added a similar switch to the stereo to keep it from constantly being illuminated and drawing power.
