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Originally Posted by JohnnyChaps
Did you recently have your batteries drain on you? I left my parking lights on overnight, and it killed the car and house batteries. I am not in a place where I can plug in and charge the house batteries. I got a jump and the car battery is working fine now, but the house batteries are still dead. Took a good 2 hours drive and they are still dead. Wondering if the converter is shot. I have that same issue, Use button was pushed, but no house power, so no radio or camera power.
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You found the short comings of the BIRD system. The Trombetta module must see a voltage greater than 10 volts in the house battery bank to close the relay, and supply alternator power to the house batteries, otherwise, it assumes there are no house batteries installed. I suspect the same is true if you have a BIM. The alternater uses engine power to produce 12 volts DC and the converter uses 120 volts AC to produce 12 volts DC
To charge the house batteries using the generator or shore power, the latching relay must be in the use or on position. The latching relay switch uses house battery power to move the position of the latching relay. If you are handy you can jumper the latching relay to pass converter power to the house batteries. You must have the generator running or on shore power to charge the house batteries with the converter and the use/store switch in use position (master power - on).
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