Battery/Inverter problems

[Area13]

Not sure what's wrong, but had my TC for about 1.5 years now and seems I have a battery or inverter problem? I had my CO sensor beeping at me a few months ago camping and found my battery bad/dead (4 years old) when hooked to power, replaced it a few months ago and now have my CO sensor beeping at me again yesterday, again, power hooked up, lights dim, VDC 9.5 and can't work my slide or jacks.

I recently bought a 2nd battery (not hooked up) and didn't hook it u for a spare in case I needed it. Well I used it yesterday to get my slide in and jacks up!
Trying to figure out why a new battery is draining with AC hooked up? Could it be a short or a bad inverter???

Here is my inverter. Any ideas or whys to test? I have a VOM.

[Area13]

bigfootford wrote:

Area13 wrote:
Got it figured out today since I finally had some dedicated time to work on it before beer30. Positive wire AND Negative both looked like this. Previous owner overshot the screw and tightened down on mostly jacket. Thanks for all of the ideas. Kinda wish I wouldn't have posted this thread in the first place now until I dug into it more, feel kinda silly. I was kinda beered up on the 4th when I posted.:) 13.3 volts hitting the batteries now. Thanks all....

Good, you found it....

Did the PO add the remote pendant to the 9260?

If so you should play with it and understand how it works..

http://www.progressivedyn.com/prod_details/pendant.html

If you do not have one I would get one. They are not that expensive.

Jim

Thanks Jim will do.

[bigfootford]

Area13 wrote:
Got it figured out today since I finally had some dedicated time to work on it before beer30. Positive wire AND Negative both looked like this. Previous owner overshot the screw and tightened down on mostly jacket. Thanks for all of the ideas. Kinda wish I wouldn't have posted this thread in the first place now until I dug into it more, feel kinda silly. I was kinda beered up on the 4th when I posted.:) 13.3 volts hitting the batteries now. Thanks all....

Good, you found it....

Did the PO add the remote pendant to the 9260?

If so you should play with it and understand how it works..

http://www.progressivedyn.com/prod_details/pendant.html

If you do not have one I would get one. They are not that expensive.

Jim

[enblethen]

Thanks for the update!

[Area13]

Got it figured out today since I finally had some dedicated time to work on it before beer30. Positive wire AND Negative both looked like this. Previous owner overshot the screw and tightened down on mostly jacket. Thanks for all of the ideas. Kinda wish I wouldn't have posted this thread in the first place now until I dug into it more, feel kinda silly. I was kinda beered up on the 4th when I posted.:) 13.3 volts hitting the batteries now. Thanks all....

[mrgreetis]

Beemerphile and all, Sorry, my mistake. I missed the TC piece.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

bigfootford wrote:

Boatycall wrote:
If you want to bring it down, I'm about 30 minutes from Fox Island in Spanaway. I got nuthin else goin on today. I have battery load testers, meters, etc.

There ya go.... A great offer!

Hat's off the Boatycall!

Jim

I will give forth a loud I'LL SECOND THAT! Fellow RVers helping others is a great way to go. Saludos!

[beemerphile1]

mrgreetis wrote:
As mentioned many times before, your trailer emergency brakes need a charged battery connected in order to stop your trailer if it becomes disconnected from your tow vehicle. Please remember to connect one of the batteries before you tow. This is a DOT regulation.

Your post is true but not relevant since this is a truck camper.

[mrgreetis]

As mentioned many times before, your trailer emergency brakes need a charged battery connected in order to stop your trailer if it becomes disconnected from your tow vehicle. Please remember to connect one of the batteries before you tow. This is a DOT regulation.

[Area13]

Thanks all for the responses, REALLY appreciate it, especially boatycalls offer.

We are heading out this morning to go camping and all is working well hooked to shore power and both batteries are charged and disconnected for now. The battery cables are marked positive and negative and am confident the polarity is proper.

We are not dry camping so I should be able to get by till I get home and dig into this issue better or maybe a little while camping. Unfortunately this problem arised during the 4th of July weekend while too busy with plans to really dig into and now out the door Monday morning.

[bigfootford]

Boatycall wrote:
If you want to bring it down, I'm about 30 minutes from Fox Island in Spanaway. I got nuthin else goin on today. I have battery load testers, meters, etc.

There ya go.... A great offer!

Hat's off the Boatycall!

Jim

[Boatycall]

If you want to bring it down, I'm about 30 minutes from Fox Island in Spanaway. I got nuthin else goin on today. I have battery load testers, meters, etc.

[bigfootford]

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
So many, far too many of these questions are asked with the OP obviously not having a volt amppanel gauge to glance at. Like driving without mirrors and a speedometer. Fer crying out loud get a panel meter pair installed. A few folks will pronounce that as being dumb and proceed to ruin five-hundred dollars worth of batteries plus their outings.

And their 12vdc electronics.

Jim

[bigfootford]

I would not hook that new battery nor any battery up until I knew that I have 12vdc coming from that converter and that the + lead for the battery and the - lead are labeled and have the proper polarity . Doing this keeps you from hooking a battery up backwards... An absolute no no.

That said, you have no power coming from your converter, other wise your jacks etc would work.... The converter should provide power for that without the battery unless the converters protection fuses blew. They both will blow, not just one.

You need a meter to measure 12 vdc... If you do not have one get one and use Youtube to learn how to use it.. EASY for basic stuff. Maybe you have a friend that has a meter and knows how to use it....


If you inadvertently hooked the battery up backwards 2 things are going to happen.....

1.The protection fuses on the PD9200 are going to blow.... There are 2 and they are 30 amps each....

2. You may have fried everything that was on that runs on 12vdc.... LP sensors, Radio, Fridge Jack controller... Hopefully this did not occur...

So a meter first, hook up your shore power, check the Converter output 12vdc/fuses, then the polarity of the battery hookup wires 12vdc and then if everything looks correct.. Remove shore power, connect the new battery up and see if your jacks and other 12vdc stuff works.
Plug in shore power if everything works...

Keep us informed.

Jim

[MEXICOWANDERER]

So many, far too many of these questions are asked with the OP obviously not having a volt amppanel gauge to glance at. Like driving without mirrors and a speedometer. Fer crying out loud get a panel meter pair installed. A few folks will pronounce that as being dumb and proceed to ruin five-hundred dollars worth of batteries plus their outings.