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Reply #21 –
I'm still chasing a dead short somewhere and as there's a whole lot of wires it may take a while.

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Reply #22 –
Quote from: Olde English –
I'm still chasing a dead short somewhere and as there's a whole lot of wires it may take a while.
Sure it's a short. As with a short you would lose power very quickly via a blown fuse. And if it's an unfused circuit, You would then have a light bulb element and you would smell smoke or have a fire.

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Reply #23 –
Had to walk away for a while so I've been lifting some sprinkler heads in the front yard.

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Reply #24 –
Quote from: Olde English –
Had to walk away for a while so I've been lifting some sprinkler heads in the front yard.
I think that would be my approach as well.  Sometimes with a puzzling, frustrating problem it is best to leave it and come back at a later date to have a fresh start on it. 

Richard

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Reply #25 –
Update Update !
I moved the coach down the driveway this weekend then disconnected both batteries. Yesterday I was putting some supplies in the coach and the dash radio/cd player was lit up like Blackpool tower.
When I tried the windshield fans, they both worked as did the interior lights.
So I switched the salesman switch off and now there's no radio, fans or lights.

Still puzzled but not defeated ha

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Reply #26 –
Update Update !
I moved the coach down the driveway this weekend then disconnected both batteries. Yesterday I was putting some supplies in the coach and the dash radio/cd player was lit up like Blackpool tower.
When I tried the windshield fans, they both worked as did the interior lights.
So I switched the salesman switch off and now there's no radio, fans or lights.

Still puzzled but not defeated ha

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Reply #27 –
You either have a third battery or you are not getting the batteries disconnected. No other physical option unless you have a converter and you have A/C power hooked up.

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Reply #28 –
No AC
No Solar
Can't get much more disconnected than this

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Reply #30 –
I know that sometimes I'm a bit thick but,
I have a 1987 late build and registered Jan 1988 ORED and not a homemade chassis.
The left battery is the chassis and the right battery is for the coach, there's no third battery.
If it was that simple even this blind squirrel would have stumbled on it by now ?

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Reply #31 –
You said turning off the salesman switch shut everything off so things, I would guess all those things
run off the house batteries.

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Reply #32 –
Yes and that's what is so confusing, with both/all batteries disconnected where's the power getting to the salesman switch?

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Reply #33 –
Quote from: craneman –
According to the specs those are coach batteries.
The 1988 Gran Villa U280 is not the same chassis as a 1988 ORED.

The diagram below from our Forum library (1989 12V - Automotive - ORED) should be similar to the 1988 ORED owned by Olde English.  Shows only 2 batteries.

Other than what has already been previously suggested, I can think of no rational explanation for the source of the "ghost power".    :help:


 

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Reply #34 –
Back to reply #9 there has to be another battery or power source somewhere on the coach.

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Reply #35 –
Someone added a battery somewhere.

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Reply #36 –
Quote from: Olde English –
No AC
No Solar
Can't get much more disconnected than this

Are these the batteries located just inside the front door?  Now I'm not being insulting for the fun of it, but is there another battery inside that compartment?  I must confess to stuffing extra batteries in strange locations myself.

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Reply #37 –
I've had this coach for over 10 years and I do my own maintenance so I've crawled all over it. From front to back and top to bottom I've been underneath for fluid changes, front brakes and shocks, new springs on the front jacks.
If there's a third battery I'd like to know where it's hiding.

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Reply #38 –
How hard is it to trace the wire from the salesman switch to whatever is supplying it?

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Reply #39 –
More than I want to do tonight ha.
I just went out and fiddled with the salesman switch and the power feed seems low, the dash fans were turning slower than they would normally. So I'll have another go at it tomorrow.