Dirtyrhoades77 wrote:
Thanks for the replies guys. I turned off the breaker that the converter is connected to, and of course it shows zero, as the wall monitor is a 12 volt device, so it didn't work at all.
Just because it is plugged into shore power doesn't mean it should show full charge should it? That makes it entirely useless for checking battery levels.
Surely it should be showing the actual level of the batteries, whether or not I'm plugged in, shouldn't it? It's labeled "Batt Cond" after all...
The batteries are disconnected in the first place because they were way below 12 volts. The converter is not charging them, and while the batteries were disconnected to charge on a trickle charger, I noticed the wall monitor still says full. That can't the intended behavior. Something must be miswired.
was you battery disconect switch turned off?
it is a battery moniter when you are runing the trailer on the batteries and not shore power it will show you the level of charge of the battery. so just using some aproximat numbers it had dumb lights that come on a spicific voltages so at 12.3 it might say 1/3, at 12.5 it might say 2/3 and at 12.8 it will say full. when your trailer is plugged in it is feeding the 12V side with 13.somthing for charging and such so the battery moniter sees that and shows full. check your actual voltage where the battery is installed on the two battery clamps. if it is showing 13+ V then throw the battery out and buy new ones as you cooked it at some point and a trickel charger isnt going to help. if you show zero voltage check to make sure you dont have a battery disconect like I listed above. if you do put your battery back in and turn that switch on to charge your battery back up.
Steve
