Puzzled over battery boil over
I leave MH hooked up to 30 amp while stored at home. I have never had an issue with batteries before, but on this trip, after traveling 300 miles I noticed 'water' dripping on pavement. Upon opening ...
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You converter can boil over a battery in a heartbeat. Mine did. :(
You need to check the output of the converter. And from my experience with 2 different RV mobile repair guys that both said my converter was ok. You have to leave the tester on 'after' it reaches the correct output. That's what the 3rd repair guy did and it skyrocketed off the charts. Which is why my battery was cooking.
When we took it out one capacitor looked like someone shot it with a 22.
Converter was still running but it affected 2 other things in my MH that no one thought to put two and two together to point to the converter. And like a three stooges movie every was 'convinced' the sulphur smell we got a whiff of every now and then was from a well I was parked next to. :S
You need to check the output of the converter. And from my experience with 2 different RV mobile repair guys that both said my converter was ok. You have to leave the tester on 'after' it reaches the correct output. That's what the 3rd repair guy did and it skyrocketed off the charts. Which is why my battery was cooking.
When we took it out one capacitor looked like someone shot it with a 22.
Converter was still running but it affected 2 other things in my MH that no one thought to put two and two together to point to the converter. And like a three stooges movie every was 'convinced' the sulphur smell we got a whiff of every now and then was from a well I was parked next to. :S
