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Re: Issue with house batteries
*I think* the alternator is, but the converter seems to be something that just keeps coming up, and I am not sure why I am having so much trouble finding it :) For the alternator- When we went on the trip, the person that sold us the new batteries had told us to move our trickle charger to the house batteries instead of the chassis. So we had batteries charging.. from themselves. I suspect this is why we lost all power when driving. When we got home and changed the trickle charger setup, someone else advised we test volts on the batteries which we did- 12 volts when engine was off, and then when we turned it on they went up to 13.6ish. This leads me to think the alternator is working as it should, but the trickle may have been the culprit on the drive. Am I correct in thinking that with the batteries fully charged from shore power,then disconnecting, we should NOT be losing all battery power within a few days with the fridge on Auto and nothing else on, but of course things plugged in? Does this sound like an issue with the converter/inverter/charger most likely not slowly charging them? Thank you all again.524Views0likes0CommentsRe: Issue with house batteries
MrWizard, I would think being plugged into the house for four days would fully charge them, but I am so new to this, maybe I am wrong. There is an inverter/charger/converter somewhere, but I have yet to find it. The user manual says- The converter is located in the bottom of the galley, in a cupboard, or under a bed. I do not know exactly what I am looking for, but so far, cannot find it. The fridge is set to Automatic right now, as we have been attempting to figure out a problem with that because it was fault coding. Could it just be that draining the batteries? How long can you run the fridge on just house batteries normally? Have not checked the water heater yet, but will do. Thank you!525Views0likes0CommentsRe: Issue with house batteries
2003 Winnebago Itasca Sunova- New to us, second owners, our first RV. We have not done any dry camping in it, or any camping at all for that matter. Trying to sort out the issues before we can do that, and have had it for about a month. We thought we had solved the battery issue by replacing the batteries, but then decided to drive it to Colorado and about 4 hours into the drive we lost power in the motorhome, while the engine was running so that brought us back to something being wrong. The new batteries are Duralast Marine and RV Deep cycle, 24MD-DL. There are two of them.526Views0likes0CommentsRe: Issue with house batteries
The batteries are brand new as of less than a month ago, as when we bought it we had the same issue and thought it would be the batteries as they were original from 2003 so replaced them. Is it possible we bought the wrong batteries and that could be the issue? Knowing now that the tech that sold them to us told us to put the trickle charger on the house batteries instead of the chassis battery, I am wondering if perhaps he did not have the knowledge and sold us batteries that would not work for our setup, or is that even a thing?525Views0likes0CommentsRe: Issue with house batteries
Update here- Still have not located the charger/inverter/converter, but was doing some testing before continuing to try to find that. We disconnected the trickle that was charged into the house batteries, and moved it back to the chassis, hoping that was the entire problem, but it appears not. Plugged into our house for three days and fully charged the house batteries, no issue there with charging- Disconnected it two days ago, and yesterday the battery showed 1/3 charge by end of day. This morning, battery is showing dead and have lost power to the microwave, but can still turn on the house lights. It appears something is draining the batteries, but I have no idea what or why they cannot stay charged even for a couple days?524Views0likes0CommentsRe: Issue with house batteries
That is helpful. I highly doubt they replaced it, so it must be there although I did not see anything under there (but am not entirely sure what I am looking for) What did your original one look like? Does it have an on/off switch or it just runs all the time? THANK YOU!211Views0likes0CommentsRe: Norcold N611 five flashes
Ok, so here is where we are with this. About 20 hours from hooking up the fridge to the house power, no flashes, and the temp of the glass of water was 45 degrees. At 24 hours, the water in the glass was 55 degrees but still no coding. I am thinking... Great, its the cooling unit gone bad. At that point, I disconnected the thermistor, and left the fridge hooked to our house power. This morning, we have a one flash fault code which I expected since the thermistor is disconnected, but the water is down to 36 degrees and the freezer is 13 degrees. I would think this leads to it being a bad thermistor? Any thoughts?3.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Issue with house batteries
Update to this- Still cannot find our inverter/charger after looking in all the compartments. I have no idea where this thing is so cannot check to see if it is on/off, wired up. As of this morning, we still have power in the coach so could it be that we just drained the batteries with the incorrect trickle charger setup?210Views0likes0CommentsRe: Issue with house batteries
Oh interesting. I will have to go have a look later and look in all the compartments. About how big is it? (just wondering if it will be easy to miss) I tried looking at wiring diagrams, and I see it listed as a part but cannot find it on the diagrams themselves for location.210Views0likes0CommentsRe: Norcold N611 five flashes
Update on this- We do realize the issue could actually be related to the battery issues we have been having, so we reset the control board, plugged the fridge in directly to our house, and put the cup of water in the fridge compartment at about 6:30 last night. No error codes as of this morning, and frozen ice in the freezer so that is something. We will check it again and get a temp on the water after 24 hours if we do not get the five flashes before then. Fingers crossed!3.4KViews0likes0Comments
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