Are Engine and House Batteries Connected?
On a long trip home, after stopping to get gas, I turned the key to start, and the dashboard went dark. After a bit of panic in the 95 degree weather, I tried the "battery boost" switch, and feeling ...
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Forgot to add. The House/Coach batteries will not charge from the 120v to 12v converter UNLESS the house battery switch (aka salesmans switch) is ON. Turn the house batts off, and the converter, if powered by shore power or generator will provide 12v, but is not connected to the house batts and will not charge them. Gotta have the house batts on.
If the vehicle lighter/power socket is hot all the time (as opposed to being hot only when the ignition is on) then you can use a small solar panel to backfeed the lighter socket to maintain the chassis batteries. Search Ebay for "VW solar panel" without the quotes, to see what I mean. These came with every VW shipped to the US, but the dealer employees stole them and sold them on Ebay, and the new VW buyer never knew they should have got them.
Charles
If the vehicle lighter/power socket is hot all the time (as opposed to being hot only when the ignition is on) then you can use a small solar panel to backfeed the lighter socket to maintain the chassis batteries. Search Ebay for "VW solar panel" without the quotes, to see what I mean. These came with every VW shipped to the US, but the dealer employees stole them and sold them on Ebay, and the new VW buyer never knew they should have got them.
Charles
