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House battery switch won't turn on

Yahoo Message Number: 20566
I'm a new owner of a used 2005 Inspire 330. The house batteries keep going down to where the house battery switch in step well will not turn on. I just picked the coach up from from having service work done and drove for more than 2 hours. The house batteries don't seem be getting much of a charge. I also have it plugged into a 120V house outlet seeing if that would help. After an hour, the house battery switch still does not work.

Looking for suggestion on how to resolve.

Jock Vargo

2005 Inspire 330
51428

House battery switch won't turn on

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 20567
I'm a new owner of a used 2005 Inspire 330. The house batteries keep going down to where the house battery switch in step well will not turn on. I just picked the coach up from having service work done and drove for more than 2 hours. The house batteries don't seem be getting much of a charge. I also have it plugged into a 120V house outlet seeing if that would help. After 2 hours, the house battery switch still does not work.

Looking for suggestion on how to resolve.

Jock Vargo

2005 Inspire 330
51428

Re: House battery switch won't turn on

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 20581
Sounds like either you have one or more bad batteries, or the charging circuit is not working. One way to test the batteries is a cheap battery tester (hygrometer); suck up some fluid from each cell and it will tell you if that cell is good. Electrically, you can measure the battery with a loaded guage. I've got a big analog one, and just picked up a little digital one from Radio Shack for a few bucks; don't know how well that one will work, but it is supposed to also check the charging system. I'm sure there are better ones to test the charging systems, but will be more money, of course. If you don't want to mess with testing yourself, I imagine that most battery providers would be willing and able to test them for you.
A 2005 should still have good batteries, but if the previous owner did not maintain them, they could be damaged.

John 04 Inspire 51078

Quote from: jockvargo

> I'm a new owner of a used 2005 Inspire 330. The house batteries keep > going down to where the house battery switch in step well will not > turn on. I just picked the coach up from from having service work

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Re: House battery switch won't turn on

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Yahoo Message Number: 20597
Hi Jock.........

Plugging it in to house currect is not going to help if it is regular outlet, you need at least 30 amp! First check the water level in the batteries. Do your lights in the coach turn on? Is your inverter on? Your second paragraph confuses me, I know the switch but I never touch that unless I put the coach in storage, why do you turn it off? You have a booklet on the inverter, read it before understanding everything, but you need to program the display above the door so that you can read the voltage-output from the batteries, look on page 28!

I hope this will help, if not, let me know!