Re: Battery advice
Reply #15 –
Being sort of a prepper and a remote drycamper a shorted cell in any flooded cell battery is a non starter. No pun intended.
It happened to us long ago. And the old diesel coaches two house batteries which were down on SOC. Would not winter start the coach.
Lucky that the country coach long ago we were using had a separate gen battery which got the gen going then the house side charged up then we could boost over the bad battery and start the motor. Belt and suspenders stuff.
Too cold to go out and play with battery cabling.
This was today after not touching the coach for four weeks in dry storage on 14 amps of solar and a auto combiner.
Started the engine and the start relay being energized auto disconnected the battery banks.
Engine redtops showed 9.9 volts on the lower dash gauge during cranking.
As soon as the starter relay quit receiving a input the auto connect reconnected the battery banks and went 13.88 volts
M11 vibrates a lot and the compartment gets hot.