What is draining my batteries?

[Jon]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Ryan Wright"
wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> My new (to me) coach has been parked for the past week in front of
my
> house while I create it a better parking spot. As a result I can't
> reach the 50 amp service on my house so it's disconnected from the
> grid.
>
> My batteries are only lasting ~48 hours before the battery alarm
> sounds so I'm having to use the generator to recharge. Every time I
> start the genset, "DC charge" meter goes up to 150 amps and takes
> hours getting back down. I've run it 6+ hours until "DC charge" was
<
> 25 amps and the batteries still die a couple of days later.
>
> So, how do I fix this? "DC Discharge" shows zero (and yes, the meter
> works, it goes up when I turn lights on). Nobody has been in the
coach
> so the lights haven't been used and I turned everything off that I
> know of. I set the fridge to run on AC or gas only (no DC, since I
> noticed it was hitting the batteries up for juice). The only things
I
> have on that I know of are:
>
> 1. Stereo (it's "off", but previous owner wired ACC right to +12v so
> it's always lit up - but that should take months to drain four car
> batteries, not days).
> 2. Battery alarm.
> 3. Fridge temp alarm.
>
> Coach has 6 blue top 12vdc Optima batteries (two engine, four coach)
> with 10/05 manufacture dates. Mix of 50 & 55 amp-hour batteries.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated!
>
> -Ryan
> '86 PT-40 8V92
> Tri-Cities, WA

Ryan while out in my coach today I thought about your electrical
problem and could your engine pre-heater be on? This takes quite
alot of juice to opperate-just thought I would through this at you.

Jon
Bremerton
78 Wanderlodge.
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