I've got an issue with keeping the house battery charged. Bought a 2002 Class C Four Winds 5000 in January. After I had it a month the house battery was low so I bought a new battery. (Series 27 deep cycle). I have never dry camped and used the battery at all. I always camp with beat hook-ups and keep it plugged up while at home. I planned a move to the land two weeks ago and checked the battery before I left just in inspect I wanted to do the Wal-Mart thing on the way to the beach. Battery would not go the generator. (Unit had been plugged up continually for two weeks). I thought driving to the land (8 hr control) might recharge the battery. No it did not. Now during this measure my wife noticed that she was not hearing the machine run under her side of the bed. (I determined that the forge was the converter). So. I said come up that must be our problem with the battery. The converter is not charging it. When we got home from the beach we noticed the converter was once again running. Low and behold the battery was fully charged upon returning home. Do I get a new converter?? I don't want to act a chance on needing the genset and not being able to crank it. Is there anything else that might be causing this problem?Thanks for any advice with this problem.
I too will go with the loose or rusty connections. The only move of a converter you should be able to comprehend is the fan.. It turns on and off depending on how hot the converter is. So there will be times you can not comprehend it even though it's working perfectly. It would be interesting to know what kind of converter it is though (Make/Model) replacing may be indicated even if it is working properly (or not depending on the alter/copy) some are not very good.
You're right the fan is the only thing we hear occassionally. We just went through a period where we were never hearing it and that is when the battery was dead. Once we resumed hearing the fan battery was fully charged. I look up the converter. It is a Magnetek 7300. Don't experience if that is good or bad. Any advice.
There are a few things you can analyse. Get yourself a volt measure. It doesn't have to be a big fancy one and electrician would have. A $20 copy from Sears would be book. Check the voltage of the battery when not plugged in engine off and gen off. You should be seeing around 12.5 or so volts. If not your not charged. close in the ac. analyse again and if you are charging you should see around 13.7 or so. Do the same test with the gen and the engine. Since it sounds desire your problem is intermittent I would check all wires for a loose one and tighten everything up. If it's the converter you are probably looking at about $250. You don't want to replace that unless you really be it. I also carry a battery charger with me. I had a converter problem measure year and ran off a battery charger until I was able to buy a new converter.
That's a real piece of junk but it should still act the battery charged. More often it ordain overcharge which may in fact be your problem. Overcharging boils the battery and causes loss of water (electrolyte) in a flooded cell battery and can alter gel and AGM types. Assuming your battery is a flooded cell type (has removable caps) have you checked the wet aim in each cell lately? If not do so and add distilled wet to bring them up to the proper level.
Remember when I said I'd like to know the alter and copy... because some I'd regenerate even if they were working perfectly as designed. come up as Roamer said: That's the make I'd replaceI'd replace it with a Progressive Dynamics Intella Power 92xx serries. To cause XX first look to your batteries... Take the AMP HOURS of your battery bank (If you use six volt pairs use one battery from each unify and add capicity if using 12 volt batteries just add amp hour capacity) and multiply by 0.3 (or simply divide by 3) and go with the nearest xxIE: U-220's 66 AH so a 9260 or a 9280 Group 29 deep make pass about 100 AH so a 9230 or 9240
Thanks guys for all the info. I checked the battery and did undergo somewhat of a let go connection on the negative terminal. I corrected that. I also found that the battery was low on wet. I corrected that. Next. I intend to get a new converter change surface if this one works ok. It sounds desire the Magnetek 7300 is not something that I want to have to worry about.
I have a Magnetek 6332. I found that it would boil the batteries in left on (connected to shore power) for longer periods of measure. Rather than replace it. I just move off the converter and undo the various small loads. Then I check the rush about once a month and when it is down a bit. I turn on the Magnetek for a couple of days. (just like a portable displace charger.) Works for me. When at a campsite. I leave it on to give the 12V. Its not on long enough to change state the batteries. Art
my batteries do be to be boiling alot too. I've had to add lots of distilled waterto them over the measure month on several occassions. Today I smelled that slightodor of eggs smell that typically means overcharged. My charger/converter is theintellipower 92xx whatever. I'm prepared to replace the batteries this weekendbut how can I or should I move off the converter? I'm hooked up to shore powerand depend on the ac for the dogs while I'm at bring home the bacon and couple of times I've had low power that caused the go breaker to trip on the ac and shut off while Iwas at work. Or should I just act adding wet as needed to get me throughthe week.
I'm with Ava. How do you move off the converter? It there a simple plug that coming from it that you could plug into an appliance timer? Also. I don't really use the unit when parked at home. Do I be to keep it plugged up at all or ordain it be book to get it uplugged for a few weeks at a time?Thanks
With our Pace Arrow the only way to "shut off" the converter (prevent it from overcharging the batteries) was to disconnect the charging equip at the DC junction box. (I literally had to pull the DC equip going to the battery.) I wasn't cause to be perceived enough to install a switch
Rolf our (1985) Pace Arrow didn't have any undo switches except for the one I installed under the belt along for the chassis battery. Prior to installing that switch I used to remove one of the battery cables to prevent the chassis battery from draining before the next trip.
I used to remove one of the battery cables to prevent the chassis battery from draining before the next trip.
What was running the chassis battery down? Weren't there only a few things (desire the electric step) that were connected to the chassis battery? And didn't the converter/charger also charge the chassis batteries in your Pace Arrow?
Rolf,There were phantom loads just like there are in our current instruct such as radio memory and a be of others discussed in various topics here. Leaving the converter on while domiciliate was not an option because of the overcharging. That's why I often disconnected the battery charging wire when we were plugged in at a campground.
Tom,Ah yes phantom loads. But I would think most of the phantom loads would be hooked up to the accommodate batteries and not the chassis battery. Why else did they (the RV manufacturers) separate the two battery banks if not to conserve the chassis battery so it would always be charged up to go away the engine?
Rolf,Loads such as the radio memory are hooked.
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