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Draining batteries and disconnect switches OFF ...

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On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 01:58:21 EST Bodie6413@... writes:

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Mike, could it be that one cable from each battery comes from > the battery to

the master on/off switch and then several cables from the switch out > to the

various loads>??

YES, that is what I wrote in my first email. There is only one cable from each disconnect switch that goes to the POS post of its respective battery. (My disc switches each have two terminals). If we just take the Chassis disc. switch: from its right side terminal one cable goes to the POS post of the chassis battery and two other cables head out to space...On the left side terminal two cables head out to space...The same holds true for the House (Domestic) side. Further complications are that from the POS battery posts (one cable goes to the Disc. SW) more cables head out. I am an amateur but it looks to me that the Disconnect Switches cannot possibly do their job. For us poor souls who need to park our RV's without power hook up our batteries suffer. I am also wondering if being in the northern part of the country, with a very bad winter weatherwise, has an affect too? My solar panel has been covered with ice for the past 6 weeks so that is not helping the situation.
However, I never had this problem of batteries draining on my prior gas MH and I think Disconnect Switches could be designed to disconnect the batteries and prevent them from losing power.