What is draining my batteries?

[krminyl@...]

Hi Ryan,

Any way you can run a drop cord to your battery charger, and just keep it
plugged in? You don't have to run everything off the 50a cord if everything is
turned off...all you really need is a 110v extension cord, unplug your
battery charger/s from the coach circuit, and plug it into the extension cord.

As for the drain, the alarm causes a draw, along with the radio, LED's on
your monitor panel, overhead LED segment clocks and timers. If your optima
batteries have been discharged a few times, they might be toast...take them to
an auto parts store, alternator rebuild shop, or anywhere else where they can
load-test the batteries. Your coach came with deep-cycle 6v golf cart
batteries (I think) which can sustain a full discharge many times with harming
the
cells permanently. If your batteries are ruined, I'd recommend re-wiring it
back to it's original 6v configuration. If you leave your coach for longer
than a few days, and everything is shut off electrically, I'd also consider
some kind of battery disconnect switch, that removes the battery 12v circuit
completely from the coach (when located at the batteries, you won't even have
to kill the master or electronic master switch...just shut off the batteries
completely).

Good luck...

Kevin McKeown
Yorba Linda, CA
1986 38' PT



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