My batteries dont seem to be charging, but not sure if its the converter or generator.
SO here is the history: I bought a used 2014 Grand Design Momentum 355TH last July and it worked great. Everything worked great and every time we used the generator it charged the battery (or kept them charged) after using them on many weekends for over 4 days straight each time. Then over the winter season I had the Camping World service some minor items and also some warranty items over the winter. I picked up the trailer a few months ago and it all seemed fine when we picked it up until this last weekend when we went to use it. Just note that right before we took it out for the weekend, I knew the battery was over a year old, so I bought a brand new Deep cycle battery plus verified with Batteries PLUS the battery was 100% charged, tested and good to go.
Now here is the kicker, which I did a mess up and hopefully it is just a fuse or something easy. Apparently the previous 'Multi' battery had the polarity of the positive and negative on opposite ends on which my new current battery was stated but ASSUMED it was the same. So, as you can guess when I tried to hook it up there was lots of sparks of course and pulled back the battery connection wires like wth??!
Anyway, I then realized the positive and negative had been switched. So I hooked it up normal and all seemed fine as I thought. Just an FYI, I have a total of 4 wires going to the battery:
2 wires, white one and a black one coming from Trailer.
2 wires coming from the internal generator.
So after this little incorrect hookup I went inside and noticed 3 fuses were blown, so I went to the O'Reilly Auto Parts store and bought brand new correct rated fuses and replaced the bad ones PLUS replaced old ones to have all fresh and 'correct' amp fuses and all looked good. In the main fuse box panel there was only 1 of the 40 amp fuse for the inverter or converter and it did show OK. Now I fired up the generator and tested everything and all is good to go and again at least I thought it was good to go since everything ran as normal (2 A/C units, 2 refrigerators, lights, etc, etc) for 30 minutes until I shut it down.
So the next day we drove and get to the track and set it all up. Unhooked from the truck, leveled it all out, slides out and then I started the generator. I then checked everything was on but then also noticed the battery level was now down to 2/3. I thought that was odd, as I drove it there with nothing on, plus I thought while connected to the truck it should be charging the battery right or no??
After about 4 hours of running on the generator and with dual A/C units, 2 refrigerators and lights all on, I then decided to check the battery level again and it was now down to 1/3 battery and I'm like WTH??!! I went and checked all of the fuses and checked all devices, plus made sure the battery wires and all grounds were nice and snug but could not find anything wrong. Well luckily there was a Autozone and I drove down there and bought a new deep cycle battery to have as a spare plus verified it was charged too. AS my main battery started to get low my Refrigerator was flashing LOW DC on the screen and sure enough my battery level now was showing empty. So I powered all A/C units off, switched refrig to propane and turned off all lights plus powered off the generator. Then I disconnected battery and replaced it with the brand new 2nd battery. Fired gen back up and turned everything back on and battery was 100% again. well about 10 pm I checked the battery level and it was back down to 1/3. Then about 3 am I hear multiple beeping from refrig and it showing LOW DC again, and confused now as it is on Propane and not even DC or AC and yup the battery level was back down to empty and Eventually about 30 minutes EVERYTHING powered off and in the dark, UGHH!! Luckily in the mean time I was charging up that other battery and did the old swap and was able to get generator back on and A/C units back on again. The next day was tiring during this about every 6 hours. SO, is it something in my generator not charging the battery or is it the Inverter or Converter? Also does the inverter or converter have their own fuse since there was only 1 of the 40 amp fuses in my main fuse panel? Please help as I just want it to work like it should. Many said my Converter fuse is blown or it is a bad Converter, but others said it might be my Inverter is bad as it could be pulling too much power from battery. Any way to test any of this or anyone have any ideas to check?
SO here is the history: I bought a used 2014 Grand Design Momentum 355TH last July and it worked great. Everything worked great and every time we used the generator it charged the battery (or kept them charged) after using them on many weekends for over 4 days straight each time. Then over the winter season I had the Camping World service some minor items and also some warranty items over the winter. I picked up the trailer a few months ago and it all seemed fine when we picked it up until this last weekend when we went to use it. Just note that right before we took it out for the weekend, I knew the battery was over a year old, so I bought a brand new Deep cycle battery plus verified with Batteries PLUS the battery was 100% charged, tested and good to go.
Now here is the kicker, which I did a mess up and hopefully it is just a fuse or something easy. Apparently the previous 'Multi' battery had the polarity of the positive and negative on opposite ends on which my new current battery was stated but ASSUMED it was the same. So, as you can guess when I tried to hook it up there was lots of sparks of course and pulled back the battery connection wires like wth??!
Anyway, I then realized the positive and negative had been switched. So I hooked it up normal and all seemed fine as I thought. Just an FYI, I have a total of 4 wires going to the battery:
2 wires, white one and a black one coming from Trailer.
2 wires coming from the internal generator.
So after this little incorrect hookup I went inside and noticed 3 fuses were blown, so I went to the O'Reilly Auto Parts store and bought brand new correct rated fuses and replaced the bad ones PLUS replaced old ones to have all fresh and 'correct' amp fuses and all looked good. In the main fuse box panel there was only 1 of the 40 amp fuse for the inverter or converter and it did show OK. Now I fired up the generator and tested everything and all is good to go and again at least I thought it was good to go since everything ran as normal (2 A/C units, 2 refrigerators, lights, etc, etc) for 30 minutes until I shut it down.
So the next day we drove and get to the track and set it all up. Unhooked from the truck, leveled it all out, slides out and then I started the generator. I then checked everything was on but then also noticed the battery level was now down to 2/3. I thought that was odd, as I drove it there with nothing on, plus I thought while connected to the truck it should be charging the battery right or no??
After about 4 hours of running on the generator and with dual A/C units, 2 refrigerators and lights all on, I then decided to check the battery level again and it was now down to 1/3 battery and I'm like WTH??!! I went and checked all of the fuses and checked all devices, plus made sure the battery wires and all grounds were nice and snug but could not find anything wrong. Well luckily there was a Autozone and I drove down there and bought a new deep cycle battery to have as a spare plus verified it was charged too. AS my main battery started to get low my Refrigerator was flashing LOW DC on the screen and sure enough my battery level now was showing empty. So I powered all A/C units off, switched refrig to propane and turned off all lights plus powered off the generator. Then I disconnected battery and replaced it with the brand new 2nd battery. Fired gen back up and turned everything back on and battery was 100% again. well about 10 pm I checked the battery level and it was back down to 1/3. Then about 3 am I hear multiple beeping from refrig and it showing LOW DC again, and confused now as it is on Propane and not even DC or AC and yup the battery level was back down to empty and Eventually about 30 minutes EVERYTHING powered off and in the dark, UGHH!! Luckily in the mean time I was charging up that other battery and did the old swap and was able to get generator back on and A/C units back on again. The next day was tiring during this about every 6 hours. SO, is it something in my generator not charging the battery or is it the Inverter or Converter? Also does the inverter or converter have their own fuse since there was only 1 of the 40 amp fuses in my main fuse panel? Please help as I just want it to work like it should. Many said my Converter fuse is blown or it is a bad Converter, but others said it might be my Inverter is bad as it could be pulling too much power from battery. Any way to test any of this or anyone have any ideas to check?
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