Breaker connecting engine staring batteries to house batteries tripping.
Thought I would share this in case someone else had the same issue, save you the $35 in buying a new breaker. On my Magna there is a Blue Sea battery link that automatically connects the engine starting batteries with the house batteries when the engine batteries get below a certain voltage, thus keeping them charged along with the house batteries. Between the Blue Sea Battery Link and the engine batteries is a #SDLM60 by KLIXON 60 amp breaker. I noticed one day that my engine batteries were significantly discharged with not enough power to even light up the dash...upon further investigation the breaker was tripped preventing the engine batteries from combining with the house batteries and getting a charge. Resetting the breaker got an immediate trip.
I thought I had a bad breaker and bought a new one.....same thing, immediate trip..... turns out it was tripping because the load to charge the engine batteries was too much and exceeding the breaker capacity. Running the engine for a bit and charging the engine batteries using the alternator brought them back up enough that the combine feature worked fine agin and the breaker isn’t tripping.
At some point the breaker must have tripped for some reason I still don’t know and after enough time went by the engine batteries got too low in voltage for the combine feature to work. Everything seems to be fine now..
Hope that helps somebody, it wasn’t obvious to me as I was trouble shooting.
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