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Something causing thermal battery breaker to pop

Jetstreamer
Explorer
Explorer
Just pulled the rig out of the barn today and parked it in the driveway. Plugged it into the 50 amp plug from the house and continued to finish leveling it with the landing gear. I noticed as I was running the gear down I could hear the motor changing pitch like the converter was cycling voltage. Never heard it do that before.
Didnโ€™t think too much of it until I was standing near the battery compartment and could hear there was definitely something like a thermal breaker popping. The battery terminals were hot as well as the thermal breaker.
Now I just installed a progressive dynamics converter over a year ago with no apparent problems.
Now I have never messed with the charge wizard selector button (remote pendant) but when I looked at it it was solid green which I guess means boost mode?
I cycled through until I got a slow blink which I guess is the normal mode?
After I did that it seemed to be working normal with no hot battery terminals.
What do you all think might have happened and Iโ€™ll admit that I may have been doing something wrong with that charge wizard but it wasnโ€™t touched from last year....
Iโ€™m a bit baffled...
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ScottG
Nomad
Nomad
Disconnect the battery and check it.

Jetstreamer
Explorer
Explorer
Old-Biscuit wrote:
Landing gear should be wired directly from battery with it's own in-line fuse (or DC Circuit Breaker) and NOT thru the converter/DC Dist Panel


Sounds like battery voltage was low and converter was attempting to bulk charge during the high power demand


Ok thanks!

Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Explorer III
Landing gear should be wired directly from battery with it's own in-line fuse (or DC Circuit Breaker) and NOT thru the converter/DC Dist Panel


Sounds like battery voltage was low and converter was attempting to bulk charge during the high power demand
Is it time for your medication or mine?


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