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Originally Posted by JamieGeek
Emergency start switch shorts the chassis and the coach battery; or is supposed to. It works great on ours--you do have to hold it in.
Instead of spending countless hours trying to trace down a phantom load on the chassis battery I just installed a knife disconnect switch. When I park it for storage I open up the switch. Haven't had an issue with the chassis battery since.
I now also have a disconnect on the coach battery and leave both disconnected when in storage. So far both batteries have fared well with the disconnect; even with the coach battery being a crappy Harris one.
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I've tried holding it in, but it doesn't seem work. Of course, I may be doing something else wrong. Haven't really tried to figure it out as the coach batteries are fine and I can run the generator to power battery charger for chassis battery even if shore power not available.
I've seen a write up on the knife switch. It's an option. What bothers me is that everything worked fine for the first few months and then the battery started going dead after a few days. It's not like this has been a problem from day 1. I'd rather not go that far unless forced to by circumstances (i.e. nothing else that's reasonably easy works).
Our particular unit has a pair of coach batteries and I do have the coach connected to shore power, so I don't really worry about the coach batteries.
MikeAndMad
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