insurancelady66
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- Apr 7, 2014
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We have a 2005 Itasca Meridian 34H diesel pusher. I spent nearly a week camping by myself. During that time, I read almost the entire manual highlighting ALOT and trying to understand. I think I may have figured out a few issues. My husband is not mechanically inclined and gets frustrated that he isn't. So I read alot!!!! We have been having battery issues since we bought this unit about 3 years ago......THAT in inself has my husband asking to get rid of it and buy a 5th wheel and truck. Anyway, I THINK I may have discovered that the inverter or converter (whatever it's called) may not be working. While camping, I ran the engine every evening and every morning in order to keep the house batteries charged. I noticed that the fridge showed an error message in the middle of the night....dc low and it appeared that the fridge had turned off but I think it had gone into the back up emergency mode. By running the engine every night and morning, I was able to keep the fridge from erroring. By running the motor, I figured out that I was able to charge the house batteries with the alternator. We have a trik l charger for the chassis batteries. During the week of camping I was operating on 30 amp service. I was very careful to NOT operate stuff to keep my amp usage below 30. The Dimensions panel is not lighting up in the info center. Also, the light showing that we are receiving solar power is never on. We are taking the coach to our rv dealer this next week to get the things taken care of before we try to sell it but am wondering if I am on the right track with regard to the inverter. Today I went out to start the coach so I could level it up and run the slides out but the engine barely croaked.....said 8.9 amps on the house battery and 11.2 on the chassis battery. I had started the coach on Monday so it's been 6 days since it was last started. I love the coach and it is paid for so I really would like to keep it but my husband is the one who normally battles the battery issues so I just can't see him continuing to hate the rig because of this problem. HELP!!!