What is draining my batteries?

[Rob Robinson]

Curt you mention 'charge wizards'. Plural. Do you have two wizards working
at the same time? I did with my IOTAs and they conflicted. I corrected the
problem by getting a single wizard called an IQ4 which coordinates the two
chargers so they don't compete with each other. In my case I think one
charger ate the other.

On 14/05/07, Curt Sprenger wrote:
>
> Ryan,
> The EMS is for the alternating current (AC), not for direct current (DC).
>
> I monitor the DC via the dash gauges. Our coach is plugged to 50 amp
> service here at the house. New T105 batteries were installed earlier
> this year. The batteries are watered with the AquaPro watering system.
> They are charged by two Progressive Dynamics PD9160AR 60 amp chargers
> with the 4 stage Charge Wizards
> http://www.progressivedyn.com/prod_detai...izard.html .
>
> When dry camping, the generator is run for a minimum of an hour in the
> am and again in the pm. This keeps the hot water hot and the batteries
> charged.
>
> Curt Sprenger
> 1987 PT38 8V92 "MacAttack Racing"
> Anaheim Hills, Calif.
>
> Ryan Wright wrote:
>
> > Thanks all for the replies. Lots of excellent suggestions and I'm going
> > through them now. I'd like to "clean this up" for good if at all
> possible
> > rather than patch it, as I want to be able to boondock without the
> > batteries
> > dying so quickly. So, I can run an extension cord for the chargers for
> now
> > (good idea there), but I still need to clean up the phantom loads.
> >
> > Replying to some questions & comments:
> >
> > Leroy:
> >
> > > You indicated you set your fridge to run off of AC or gas. If you
> > have an
> > inverter, are
> > > you certain the fridge is not running off the inverter?
> >
> > Yup. Inverter is turned off. Fridge is running on gas - verified. LP gas
> > detector is on, however - gas won't flow with it off. Perhaps that is
> > draining the batteries? I'd be surprised if it pulled that much current,
> > though.
> >
> > Curt:
> >
> > > After installing the EMS system, I'm finding a fantom load of 3 amp as
> I
> > > watch the EMS system digital read out.
> >
> > How does that monitor the 12 volt side?? I looked at the docs and it
> > looked
> > like just a high voltage unit to me. Or do you have some other monitor
> for
> > the low voltage?
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
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> >
> >
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Rob, Sue & Merlin Robinson
94 WLWB


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