06-20-2013, 07:21 AM
Update: last night I turned off the battery switch since some of the batteries were hotter than ambient. This morning I disconnected each negative cable to isolate each battery and here are my readings:
#1 12.36 v
#2 12.36 v
#3 12.12 v
#4 12.04 v
#5 11.98 v
#6 12.29 v
So it looks like I have 3 bad or suspect batteries, these are Exide dated October 2011.
I reconnected batteries #1, 2, & 6 leaving the others isolated. I'll see how that works and try to find a hydrometer today.
Another thing when I turned the switch back on before doing this the inverter gave an error code E4 which means "battery short". Once I reconnected the 3 good batteries I'm still getting the E4 error and it doesn't look like it is charging. So I may have an inverter/charger problem also.
Just recycled shore power and now the inverter/charger is charging and no error codes so never mind.
#1 12.36 v
#2 12.36 v
#3 12.12 v
#4 12.04 v
#5 11.98 v
#6 12.29 v
So it looks like I have 3 bad or suspect batteries, these are Exide dated October 2011.
I reconnected batteries #1, 2, & 6 leaving the others isolated. I'll see how that works and try to find a hydrometer today.
Another thing when I turned the switch back on before doing this the inverter gave an error code E4 which means "battery short". Once I reconnected the 3 good batteries I'm still getting the E4 error and it doesn't look like it is charging. So I may have an inverter/charger problem also.
Just recycled shore power and now the inverter/charger is charging and no error codes so never mind.
Forest & Cindy Olivier
1987 log cabin
2011 Roadtrek C210P
PO 1999 Foretravel 36'
1998 Newell 45' #486
1993 Newell 39' #337