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Re: connect coach and house batteries?
hey all. thank you for your very valuable replies. there are a bunch of great suggestions, which i will take up over the next few days: - find out parasitic draw - fix the root cause of the chassis battery's discharging in addition, i'll pick up a 100w solar panel and plug it in to the chassis battery, just to be sure it will never die on me. will also replace the battery; i'm sure a few months of sitting at 0 is likely not very good for its longevity ;) i already have a bunch of cables and a spare charge controller (picked up 2 full sets earlier and connected both panels to a single controller that maintains the house battery), and have the remaining pieces still lying around. i'll respond in detail once i've had a chance to test the parasitic draw off of the battery, and will check individual fuses to figure out what exactly may be going on. thanks!852Views0likes0CommentsRe: connect coach and house batteries?
hornet28 wrote: You have a drain someplace. Use a battery shutoff on the coach battery agreed totally, there's a definite drain somewhere. but a shutoff means i'm wasting the excess solar power that's generated for free, and i'll just be that bit closer to having the engine battery work better... but not quite. thanks!311Views0likes0Commentsconnect coach and house batteries?
hey all. we have a 2004 coachmen freelander 3100so with the ford e-450 super duty engine. i recently replaced both coach and house batteries (we bought the rig 1.5yrs ago and these were simply old and wouldn't hold much charge), with new interstate 12v agms. house got a group 27 and coach got (if i remember correctly) a group 24. now the house battery is part of a solar charging system. 2 100w panels through a 30amp pwm charge controller maintain the house battery, and this has been working like a champ for the 10 or so months this has been in place. however, the coach battery is a different story altogether. even though nothing is running, it runs down entirely within a week or so of sitting. i suspect that the alternator is bad, but don't want to dig in and see what's going on just yet (don't have the skills *yet*). i'd like the solar panels to charge both house and coach batteries if possible, and am considering two options: - one, add a positive wire between both batteries (assuming they're grounded to the same setup) so any overage from the house battery trickles down to the coach battery - two, change the momentary battery boost button to an actual toggle (and leave it on), assuming that this won't screw up the larger converter or other systems any advise is appreciated... if i'm clear to go option one (which i prefer), is there a shorter path to connect both batteries together instead of routing an 8gauge wire between house steps and engine bay? thank you!4.1KViews0likes19CommentsRe: LED Interior Bulbs
I bought a couple sets of these lamps from Amazon. Replaced all the double-bulb interior ceiling lamps with these, and man, what a difference. Lower power consumption (of course), and it's no longer dingy and depressing inside. Much brighter outputs as well. Bonus feature is that there's no polarity when hooking these up; any wire goes anywhere. For the price I paid, won't be too sad if any die in a year or two. Cheap enough to replace if needed.827Views0likes0CommentsRe: 2004 coachmen freelander 30' cabin lighting
specware2020 wrote: Believe it or not, after all these years, things haven’t changed much in this regard – the interior lighting wiring of our 2020 model year Motor Home is essentially the same; The switch cluster/panel at the cabin entryway has a light switch for the exterior/awning light strip but none for the interior lights, not very considerate indeed. hi. thanks for your reply, but the issue I face is with the driver+passenger cabin, not the house entryway. at the house door, i have two switches, one controls the porch light outdoors and the other controls two ceiling lamps (each of which can be lit one or both sides).228Views0likes0Comments2004 coachmen freelander 30' cabin lighting
hi all. new member here; we picked up a used 2004 30' freelander a couple of weeks ago, and i've been slowly cleaning it and making sure it's safe for the family. this is on a ford e-450 super duty chassis. something that's been bugging me is the lack of door-switched lighting in the front cabin. there's a tiny little square single bulb thing in the middle of the headliner, but that needs to be manually switched on and off. i was wondering if this chassis comes with a door-switchable light circuit, and how easy it would be to add one if it doesn't. i'm thinking of a 12v led light strip that comes on when either front door is opened, and turns off when the doors are closed. any thoughts? thanks!1.3KViews0likes3Comments
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