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Originally Posted by TacticalZL1
Morning Everyone,
I'm looking for some help with my Challenger that we recently purchased. We had to put it in storage for the last 7mo, and the chassis battery was dead when I went to get it out of storage. I've since recharged the main battery and plugged the RV in to Land Power. All the batteries are showing full charge, but when I take it off Land Power nothing works. The motor will start and it'll drive, but nothing else will power up. The main cabin switch isnt lighting up for power either.
I've check the fuses and all look good, and I checked the breaks.
Not sure what I am missing here.
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Originally Posted by TacticalZL1
Yes, I am breaking out the multimeter tomorrow when its light out. I don't know where the latching relay is at. The 100amp feeds the Generator, but it wont start either. I am beginning to think the 2 batteries are dead. I looked inside and they seemed dry, added some distilled water, but no change.
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OK, now we're on to something.
When you said "All the batteries are showing full charge" you must have meant when plugged into SP - that's not an accurate indication of bateery status - it just shows the converter voltage.
So if you house batteries were dry; even though you added water, they still need to be charged externally (with a stand-alone battery charger). They won't charge by the converter if the latching relay was open, and you can't shut the latching relay with dead house batteries because the control power for the latching relays comes from the house batteries.
Get those house batteries fully charged and them load test them to see if they are any good. They may be due for replacing.
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