It’s like real life; only different. We don’t have to stay in one place, but we still have to deal with personal, professional, and mechanical issues. Today’s issue was 12 volt. We have two banks of batteries in the coach. The first two batteries are for the engine. The next four are for the house. There is a sensor attached to one of the four house batteries that tells the inverter when the house batteries are fully charged so it can shut off the charger. The sensor has deteriorated, never sends the inverter the message that the batteries have been fully charged, the inverter never tells the charger to stop, so the house batteries have been cooked. We were on the road and didn’t want to just stop and wait for parts, so we called ahead. We had a new sensor sent to the Bar Harbor KOA. We made an appointment with Rusty at Ellsworth RV to meet us at the park with four new house batteries and execute the fix. The batteries are located in a rear compartment.
In a slide-out drawer.
(The old house batteries have already been removed.)
The new sensor to attach to the top of the new batteries has a cord attached that is hard-wired to a phone jack fitting. That cord has to be threaded forward, from the battery compartment, past the rear wheels, past another compartment, to the next compartment to be plugged into the inverter.
The inverter is in this cabinet…
…affixed upside down, to the underside of the floor above.
That was the toughest part of this project, getting that connecting wire threaded. But it got done, and here we have it, new batteries in place.
All buttoned up, 12 volt house system fully functioning again.
Randy and Chris did an awesome job. The job might have even been done in record time. Life on the road. Looks good.
In a slide-out drawer. (The old house batteries have already been removed.) The new sensor to attach to the top of the new batteries has a cord attached that is hard-wired to a phone jack fitting. That cord has to be threaded forward, from the battery compartment, past the rear wheels, past another compartment, to the next compartment to be plugged into the inverter. The inverter is in this cabinet… …affixed upside down, to the underside of the floor above. That was the toughest part of this project, getting that connecting wire threaded. But it got done, and here we have it, new batteries in place. All buttoned up, 12 volt house system fully functioning again. Randy and Chris did an awesome job. The job might have even been done in record time. Life on the road. Looks good.