bkenobi
Feb 03, 2018Explorer
Bad converter?
My dealer keeps telling me that I'm expecting too much from my truck and shore power for charging. They've told me both supply up to 2A as does a generator. They want to sell me a solar panel so I ca...
bkenobi wrote:The dealer is full of it . The parallax8345 is a 45amp output converter . Either the converter is bad ,or the wiring wrong/bad , or the connections .
My dealer keeps telling me that I'm expecting too much from my truck and shore power for charging. They've told me both supply up to 2A as does a generator. They want to sell me a solar panel so I can get up to 6A charging.
I don't expect full charge from dead instantly, but the thing never seems to charge at all and I suspect a bad converter. Using a fuse current tester, I've found that the camper pulls 0.14A when the truck is running and 0.34A when connected to shore when the battery is at 11.8v. I would have expected significantly more. Does that sound like a converter issue?
The converter (Parallax 8345) was new when I bought the TC last April. The dealer replaced ot cause the camper wasn't charging...