beardedone
Beardedone
Went camping for 7 days and everything ran fine. Yesterday we packed everything up and returned our trailer to the on-site storage area and everything was running completely normal, although 2 days previous the power went off and on rapidly about five times. Our trailer is protected by a Progressive 50 amp EMS that is hard wired into the trailer. At the storage compound I parked the trailer and unhooked as normal and then went inside to put chemical in the black tank. I flipped the water pump switch and nothing. Checked the the dis-connect switch and it was on. Back inside found out that nothing 12 volt related would show any sign of life. So I either have an issue with the converter or the batteries, but the batteries were fine when I picked up the trailer. This makes me think that there could be something wrong with the converter but the 2 golf cart batteries are seven years old (don't owe me anything). I have done a lot of reading on here and I am thinking that the batteries died for some reason but not sure what. So my plan is this, because everything was working fine as is, there is no rush. On my return to the trailer in one week I plan on getting into the belly of the beast and make sure the 30 amp fuses are ok (lights wouldn't work if the fuses were blown would they) and also that it is plugged into 110 volts.(the vacuum cord became unplugged once so why not this). I am going to measure the voltage coming into the batteries to see if it is ok. If is ok then I guess new batteries are in order, if not, a new converter, but I am leaning towards the batteries. I just find it strange that the batteries would go stone cold dead like this. One question I have is this. If a converter fails to charge batteries would the 12 volt lights still work when on shore power. Thanks for any response.