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Originally Posted by EA37TS
Any number of reasons.
Parasitic loads
Chassis battery older and less capacity
Faulty BIM
So on and so forth.
You didn’t engage the AGS when boondocking? It would have started generator to charge the house batteries.
If the house batteries had juice didn’t the emergency start button work?
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Thanks for the super quick reply!
-- Yup, could have a parasitic load but we've never had a problem with the batteries and the likely culprit was running that furnace blower all night. But I'm from SC, too, and it was cold!
-- Nope, we replaced the chassis battery a year ago and haven't had any problems with this one before or since. A quick jump got it going and it was fine for the rest of the trip.
-- Yeah, I read that the BIM might be faulty. I am not clear what it does so wanted to be sure I understood whether or not it was responsible for protecting the chassis battery from a drain when the house batteries go like in this situation.
OK, so I'm not an RVing newbie but I am not a techie! What does AGS stand for? Is it automatic generator start for when the house batteries are low? Is that available on our 2018 Windsport? I read about that, too, but didn't know if it was an option we had.
And, no, I must not have been clear but the house batteries were totally dead, too.
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