Did I destroy my battery

[Gary Miller]

Gardner,

Five years isn't bad for a well maintained battery, but if you
aren't sure of it's treatment in the five years by all means replace
it. After all, it is essentially your backup battery, for starting
your backup electrical system.

I think the bigger problem here is why the battery died in the first
place. It's been a few months since I put on my Wanderlodge
thinking cap, but I'm thinking the isolator, if properly wired,
should be keeping the genny battery isolated.

If you have a switch on your dashboard labelled 'aux batt' or the
like, this switch will connect your gen battery to the house and
start system when you need it. The relay which allows this to
happen may be dead in the closed position. This can happen when
someone holds the switch down too long in an effort to charge the
gen battery from the house system. The relay is
considered 'momentary' not 'continuous'.

A quick check of the system would be to press the 'aux batt' switch
and note any deflection of the voltmeters. If none, your relay is
shot, or your isolator is wired improperly.

Good Luck,

Gary Miller
83 FC 33
Milwaukee area

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Gardner Yeaw"
wrote:
>
> When I finally wrestled the thing out of the coach I found the
date,
> it was 5 years old so time to replace anyway. New one on order.
>
> Gardner
> 78FC33
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Pete Masterson
> wrote:
> >
> > Gardner,
> >
> > I don't know about the dead horse, but it sounds like you're
> beating
> > a dead battery... You'll probably have to spring for a new one.
> At
> > least it was only the generator battery, not the house batteries.
> >
> > Pete Masterson
> > aeonix1@
> > '95 Bluebird Wanderlodge WBDA 42'
> > El Sobrante, CA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Gardner Yeaw wrote:
> >
> > > <snip>
> > > Am I beating a dead horse here? I don't know the age of the
> battery,
> > > but it seems to be a few years old.
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>