- Battery isolator relay on coachmen leprechaun generator#
- Battery isolator relay on coachmen leprechaun upgrade#
That way trailer/ camper won't drain the truck batteries and I can start the truck, always a good thing. To avoid the trailer or camper from discharging my truck batteries (2 large expensive batteries!) I installed a relay that breaks the circuit from truck to trailer/camper. With a GM truck the charge line is always powered from the truck to the trailer, so the solar should also keep the truck battery charged as well. Next time you might have to grab your wallet so find what happened. Often you will get one pass and the battery(s) will recover. I assume you will find the solar stopped charging due to some fault or you left something on to drain the batteries. I like to keep them as cool as possible by limiting the charge and discharge rates. I run a SeeLevel battery monitor on mine so I can tell at a glance the state of charge as well as the battery temperature, which is an important consideration because when you have a heavy charge rate or discharge rate, the batteries heat up from the chemical reaction. All depends on how old the batteries are and how many times you discharged them below 50% capacity.
Flooded cell batteries don't like being discharged past 50% of their capacity and heavy discharge usually (but not always) results in decreased capacity and plate sulfation. Your batteries may come back and they may not.
Battery isolator relay on coachmen leprechaun generator#
Honda eu3000 generator mounted on cargo rackĬrestliner 1850 Fish Ski boat mostly fishing now!Įven thought I have a TC and my battery isolator works fine, I still unplug my truck from the camper when it sits and length of time. Where you parked where you solar panels where partially shaded. You must have left something on in the camper. With a Chevy the truck plug is always live so the parasitic loads in the RV drained it too. Are you sure your solar system has output? I'd look for a blown fuse, bad connection, fried charge controller, or something like that. Leaving the camper hooked to the truck should have kept it charged with that much solar. Prefer boondocking, USFS, COE, BLM, NPS, TVA, state camps. Winnebago 2101DS TT & 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 LTZ Z71, WindyNation 300 watt solar-Lossigy 200 AMP Lithium battery. I appreciate any input.Ģ014 Chevy Silverado 1500 Double Cab 5.3 Liter V8ġ996 Coachmen Catalina RB210 21' Fifth WheelĤ95 Watts Solar, 40 AMP Renogy Tracer MPPT Controller,2 GC2 6V Batts. I jumped the truck and got it started, but is THAT battery now fried as well?Īny ideas why leaving the camper connected to the truck would kill all the batteries? Any thoughts on what I should do next. Have I killed them? Now I've got my camper plugged into 110 shore power and the converter is charging them and they were reading 8.8 as I came in to type this post. When I finally got my DVM on the batteries (2 6 volts in series) they were reading 7.75 volts. My thought is that somehow the truck drained my batteries, even though they were being charged all day by my 320 watts of solar. I had inadvertently left the camper connected to the truck after towing it this past weekend to a local park to dump.
So I went to my truck to get tools and a DVM to check the level of charge directly off the bats, only to find the truck was also dead. So it was quite a shock today when I stepped into the camper to do dome things to prepare for this weekends upcoming trip only to find I had no power and my digital gauge was dark.
Fun just knowing everyday the batteries are being topped off and floating due to solar power.
Battery isolator relay on coachmen leprechaun upgrade#
So Ive been pretty proud of my recent solar upgrade to the camper, but haven't really had a good workout with it. Good Sam Club Open Roads Forum: Tech Issues: Camper AND truck batteries dead Open Roads Forum
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