| Re: Battery and/or starting issues [message #189070 is a reply to message #189043] |
Sat, 03 November 2012 11:56   |
kerry pinkerton
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Registered: July 2012
Location: Harvest, Al
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Thanks everyone for all the quality answers. Got more reading to do. The wife keeps asking me what I'm doing and I keep telling her that I'm reading all the GMC sites. LOL She actually thinks I'm going to get finished someday soon. Silly girl!  She has no idea how much info is online.
My battery read 12.9 Volts after charging overnight. BUT, as Matt suggested, the test showed only 110 cranking amps instead of the 850 rating so it was shot.
New 950CCA battery ready to go in. We'll see how it works before I start doing things to the wiring as was suggested. The house battery seems to be fine as it is and we'll just leave it there for now. Not planning on much dry camping anyway. Got a couple of the #2 cables and will go ahead and use them. They aren't that expensive ($5 ea).
Btw, the disconnect the PO installed is this big honking unit about 3" in diameter, not one of the battery terminal disconnects. It looks like it came out of a P51.
The PO installed a modern voltage converter and power distribution panel. I wish he had labeled the circuits but I can figure that out in time. I also wish the electronics panels weren't so dang low. Trifocals suck when you're standing on your head in the dark.
There is some extraneous wiring that I need to figure out. As I told Ken Henderson this morning, I'm not an electronics guy. I do fine with electricity. I've wired a couple houses and my shop and understand single, three phase, and rotary phase converters. Electronic components are black magic to me however. I know that a diode is a 'one way valve', a capacitor stores, a relay switches, etc. But I don't understand much about the implications of this or that and what happens if so and so is such and such. I know a few things about a lot of stuff but I know just enough about electronics to know I don't know much.
I'm probably going to be making some aluminum things for myself and to sell/give away as door prizes etc. Perhaps I'll find a way to barter some metalshaping/fabrication for electronics consulting. 
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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