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GaryB - 03 Sep 2007 22:44 GMT

Help!
Just bought a '94 Shasta Class C, and ran out of D.C. after one day. The
battery tests at 6.5 volts, and wouldn't charge by running the engine. I
removed the battery, ran the engine and got 0 volts on the battery leads!
(Even tried tapping them together, nothing)
I'm new to all this, any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Gary

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stan.birch@hotmail.com - 03 Sep 2007 22:57 GMT

>Just bought a '94 Shasta Class C, and ran out of D.C. after one day. The
>battery tests at 6.5 volts, and wouldn't charge by running the engine. I
>removed the battery, ran the engine and got 0 volts on the battery leads!
>(Even tried tapping them together, nothing)
>I'm new to all this, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Battery-isolator relays (looks like a starter solenoid) tend to get a
bit pitted and burnt after a few years of use, and have to be
replaced. A replacement "continuous-duty" solenoid/relay will set you
back about 20 bucks at Canadian Tire.

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Will Sill - 03 Sep 2007 23:36 GMT

I see where "GaryB" <gary@b2b2c.ca> contributed:

>Help!
>Just bought a '94 Shasta Class C, and ran out of D.C. after one day. The
>battery tests at 6.5 volts, and wouldn't charge by running the engine. I
>removed the battery, ran the engine and got 0 volts on the battery leads!
>(Even tried tapping them together, nothing)
>I'm new to all this, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

MPD (Most Probable Diagnosis):
Your battery isolator (see manual) is defunct or disconnected.

Will Sill
The Curmudgeon of Sill Hill

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Tom J - 04 Sep 2007 01:21 GMT

> I see where "GaryB" <gary@b2b2c.ca> contributed:
>> Help!
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>> battery leads! (Even tried tapping them together, nothing)
>> I'm new to all this, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

> MPD (Most Probable Diagnosis):
> Your battery isolator (see manual) is defunct or disconnected.

Or there is a switch somewhere in the postive lead that is turned off.
Had a camper in a Class C park next to me in NC for 5 days, got ready
to leave and the engine wouldn't crank - not even a click. After about
an hour of checking and finding nothing that seemed to be wrong, I
said to him that it acted like it had a switch in line. After his
wife got through yelling at him, he pulled out a key, rolled back the
floor mat, inserted the key in the kill switch and turned it. End of
story.

Tom J

Tom J

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