Gary.
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I purchased a battery cut off switch from Harbor Freight for $2.99. It is red and has a large red key in it. I saved a heavy duty copper wire out of an old electric hot water heater and connected the positive post on one of the coach batteries to the positive post on one of the house batteries with the heavy duty cut off switch in the middle. When I am plugged into 120 volt power I turn the key on and it charges both house and coach batteries. Before I get ready to start the motor home I turn the key to off and take it out and this disconnects the battery banks from each other. Just make sure the copper wire doesn't come in contact with anything else!
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B Bob
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Driving your motor home for a couple of hours should charge the battery if there is not damage to it.
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1fanman
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Ditto on "Trik-L-Start" I wouldn't be without mine.
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sootslayer
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New batteries in your future. h
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ConnieAndMike
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PDV,
You are gonna break something and mess up something else. We all do, don't worry, ya just have to fix it. This MH is no different that your 5er and the PU in front of it. You just don't have to run around from the cab to couch in the rain!LOL
Our MH battery dies also if I don't turn off the master switch. So you need the trickle charger to help out. A big battery in the chassis does help, but it does go down after a while. For 10 years, we leave our MH plugged in to shore power with the fridge running. I go get some steaks or what ever as we use the RV fridge as overflow from the house. Big thing is:Are you south of the Frost Line?
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Stim
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My 1989 Southwind has a set of switches to relays that I can turn on or off either battery from inside the coach. You mean the newer MH's don't have this?
Even a 1974 Winnebago that I had had a switch on the dash to a relay that let me connect or disconnect the batteries.
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bigred1cav
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If you have a dead battery check to see if the other batteries may be switched via a dash toggle to use as auxillary power to start the vehicle. My 2000 Pace Arrow has such a mechanism.
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Galvanizd
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pdv wrote:The coach is a 2005 Winnebago Voyage 35. I imagine with it being a used vehicle and almost 5 years old, that the battery might need to be changed. So you are probably right about it being a bad battery.
New battery (s) . Might be a good idea to see what else is 5 or 6 years old. Tires?
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Leewhiz
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Your enginer battery can easily be checked by any service center to see if it's good or not, so I would do that before you go out and buy a new battery. There are parasitic loads from the coach on the engine battery. In many cases, the CO Monitor, the radio, and the engine computer for start draw minimal loads that can run down a battery in about 3 days. For instance, a Ford F-350 Super Duty will draw down a battery from the computer and radio in about 3-4 days, if you do not run the engine.
Something like the Trick-L-Start is probably what you want.
Lee
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