Residential refrigerator
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Wow thanks for replying to my post? After we left Goshen we traveled 186 miles and we shut off the truck the batteries and fridge died in about 5 minutes if that long. Where did you get your rig fixed? Do you remember your service writers name? Maybe we can call them. I'm getting pretty desperate here!
scottyb
Well-known member
I agree. The truck should keep the battery charged even with the fridge running.
fredwrichardson
Past New Mexico Chapter Leader
Are your batteries charging off of shore power? There is a small breaker in the battery area next to the buss bar that has a very small rest button on it. We had the exact same issue two weeks ago for the batteries were not being charged by the shore power charger and the truck can only keep the inverter working if the batteries are dead. Truck will not produce enough electrical power to run inverter and charge batteries at the same time. Check to see if your batteries are charging off of shore power. If they are not check to see if you need to reset this small breaker off the buss bar. When we reset the breaker and gave the batteries 24 hours to charge everything was fine.
For20hunter
Pacific Region Directors-Retired
Pat,
Which repair facility did you take it to? There is obviously some problem with either your truck not charging your batteries or the fridge drawing too much power from the batteries. We, like others that posted here, initially had to get our inverter reprogrammed to keep it from shutting off, but that does not seem to be your problem as your batteries are dying. I am sure if you had tech's looking at it that they checked the obvious things like the circuit breakers and fuses which are directly responsible for the charging system? The bus bar has a breaker with a small reset button on it under the red rubber cover and if it trips, the small button just needs to be pushed to reset the breaker. Or its even possible that the breaker is bad altogether. But like I said, I am sure that the techs that looked at it checked the simple things like that. I wish I had more to suggest.
Rod
Which repair facility did you take it to? There is obviously some problem with either your truck not charging your batteries or the fridge drawing too much power from the batteries. We, like others that posted here, initially had to get our inverter reprogrammed to keep it from shutting off, but that does not seem to be your problem as your batteries are dying. I am sure if you had tech's looking at it that they checked the obvious things like the circuit breakers and fuses which are directly responsible for the charging system? The bus bar has a breaker with a small reset button on it under the red rubber cover and if it trips, the small button just needs to be pushed to reset the breaker. Or its even possible that the breaker is bad altogether. But like I said, I am sure that the techs that looked at it checked the simple things like that. I wish I had more to suggest.
Rod
rdufek
Well-known member
It does sound like the batteries are not charging while traveling down the road. I have a BH 3750FL. We traveled from New York to Florida and back taking 2 days each way and stopping at a Walmart overnight to sleep at each way without every hooking up to shore power. Inverter and refrigerator ran the entire time without issue.
Bob and Valerie
Bob and Valerie
justafordguy
Well-known member
Sure sounds like the batteries are bad or they are just not charging when hooked up to the truck.
danemayer
Well-known member
Pat,
A lot of these comments are touching on the general question of why the batteries are dead, which may or may not be related to the refrigerator. The service tech should be measuring the current drain with the refrigerator both ON and OFF to figure out how many amps are being pulled from the batteries.
If you can find the Kill-a-Watt device, try plugging the refrigerator transfer switch into it to find out how much power the refrigerator is pulling.
A lot of these comments are touching on the general question of why the batteries are dead, which may or may not be related to the refrigerator. The service tech should be measuring the current drain with the refrigerator both ON and OFF to figure out how many amps are being pulled from the batteries.
If you can find the Kill-a-Watt device, try plugging the refrigerator transfer switch into it to find out how much power the refrigerator is pulling.
