Lance camper draining battery
I picked up a 2016 lance 865. It is killing the truck batteries when plugged into the truck. If it sits for a couple days without starting the truck then it is really slow to start. On the plug I i...
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paul_arc wrote:
Can it be anything with the 8 gauge ground wire that I have bolted to the truck chassis but I don't have the 8 gauge hot wire to the batteries? I was just figuring the ground needed to be hooked up in order to make the turn signals and brake lights to work.
That shouldn't matter. The ground for the signal lights is normally picked up from the ground line on the trailer plug. The line you added should just be in parallel with that, basically providing lower resistance to the battery negative, but other than that...
AnEv942 wrote:
The backfeed sounds plausible though don't know how that would work-being on light circuits wouldn't think they could trigger truck, even less how power could be trickling back on light wires of camper other than something looking for ground?
Yeah, that was really a reach. I was thinking along the lines of a computer seeing odd signals on an input could prevent it from going into sleep mode. Not sure if that truck has a turn signal module or are the blinkers and associated bulb tests handled by computer. Like I said, a reach.
