Battery
Breakdown
Well today we woke to pouring down rain and dead coach
batteries. I love the rain. I just wish it hadn’t arrived on the same day
the battery and generator are both dead.
I think this is my own fault, but until I get home and test it for sure,
it is just a theory.
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| What the back-side of a waterfall looks like |
It started yesterday while I was running the generator. We
were getting a.c. power but the battery didn’t seem to be charging very
efficiently. So, instead of believing
the gauge and just letting the generator run longer I decided it must be the
gauge with the problem and turned the generator off thinking our batteries were
fine. Wrong. I now think (more like know for sure
since the lights and water pump won’t work) that the gauge is fine and the
batteries are the problem. What I don’t
know for sure yet is if the generator was ever charging the battery or if it
was but I just wasn’t letting it run long enough. It is loud and obnoxious
after all.
But wait, it gets
better. To charge the batteries you need
a generator right? Got it. To start the
generator you need spark (like an engine) which comes from a battery. Yep. You guessed it. No battery life, no generator, no generator,
no battery life. How dumb is that?
Needless to say, I need a spare battery or at the very least a car
jumper battery pack thingy.
On the bright side, the battery that starts the motor home
engine is working great so we aren’t stuck! And the kids are getting some
really good journaling and reading time in while we wait for this rain to let
up long enough to load outside stuff and head home.
It is a great day to be camping in an RV instead of a tent!
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