What is draining my batteries?

[Curt Sprenger]

Rob,
Yes, two Charge Wizards working at the same time. They have been in
operation for two years. No problems that I'm aware of.

Curt Sprenger
1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
Anaheim Hills, Calif.



Rob Robinson wrote:

> Curt you mention 'charge wizards'. Plural. Do you have two wizards working
> at the same time? I did with my IOTAs and they conflicted. I corrected the
> problem by getting a single wizard called an IQ4 which coordinates the two
> chargers so they don't compete with each other. In my case I think one
> charger ate the other.
>
> On 14/05/07, Curt Sprenger > > wrote:
> >
> > Ryan,
> > The EMS is for the alternating current (AC), not for direct current
> (DC).
> >
> > I monitor the DC via the dash gauges. Our coach is plugged to 50 amp
> > service here at the house. New T105 batteries were installed earlier
> > this year. The batteries are watered with the AquaPro watering system.
> > They are charged by two Progressive Dynamics PD9160AR 60 amp chargers
> > with the 4 stage Charge Wizards
> > http://www.progressivedyn.com/prod_detai...izard.html
> <http://www.progressivedyn.com/prod_detai...izard.html> .
> >
> > When dry camping, the generator is run for a minimum of an hour in the
> > am and again in the pm. This keeps the hot water hot and the batteries
> > charged.
> >
> > Curt Sprenger
> > 1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
> > Anaheim Hills, Calif.
> >
> > Ryan Wright wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks all for the replies. Lots of excellent suggestions and I'm
> going
> > > through them now. I'd like to "clean this up" for good if at all
> > possible
> > > rather than patch it, as I want to be able to boondock without the
> > > batteries
> > > dying so quickly. So, I can run an extension cord for the chargers for
> > now
> > > (good idea there), but I still need to clean up the phantom loads.
> > >
> > > Replying to some questions & comments:
> > >
> > > Leroy:
> > >
> > > > You indicated you set your fridge to run off of AC or gas. If you
> > > have an
> > > inverter, are
> > > > you certain the fridge is not running off the inverter?
> > >
> > > Yup. Inverter is turned off. Fridge is running on gas - verified.
> LP gas
> > > detector is on, however - gas won't flow with it off. Perhaps that is
> > > draining the batteries? I'd be surprised if it pulled that much
> current,
> > > though.
> > >
> > > Curt:
> > >
> > > > After installing the EMS system, I'm finding a fantom load of 3
> amp as
> > I
> > > > watch the EMS system digital read out.
> > >
> > > How does that monitor the 12 volt side?? I looked at the docs and it
> > > looked
> > > like just a high voltage unit to me. Or do you have some other monitor
> > for
> > > the low voltage?
> > >
> > > -Ryan
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
> 94 WLWB
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