Boondocking: Why does this keep happening?
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TheBluebird
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Re: Boondocking: Why does this keep happening?
Update: I set some radio staions and turned off the coach power. When I turned it back on, the radio staions were still in memory. So I disconnected the coach stereo (I don't use it) and let the Chinook sit for three days with the coach power on. She started right up!!! Problem solved! Thank you so much!!!
Fulltiming in my 2003 Concourse since November 2018.
Re: Boondocking: Why does this keep happening?
Aha! So that's found and solved. Yay! That second power wire on car stereos is kinda sneaky. And you wouldn't obviously think about it bridging the house and start battery systems.
I mentioned this back a ways, but ff you ever do want to be able to listen to the coach radio, you can wire that second wire to the house instead of the start battery (so then all coach radio power comes from the house, not the start battery). I followed BobW's lead on this. I used the former VCR wire, but that's not the only option. Just so you know for future reference. You'd still only lose the presets if/when you disconnected the house batteries, which if you are full-timing won't probably be very often ('course if you're moving around presets may not be that useful anyway).
BG
PS: A couple of days is still kind of soon for the start battery to go flat (after all cars may not be started for two days and they still have that "hot" stereo power wire). Possibly it's been damaged by going flat a number of times. So it may be that you'll want to replace it soonish - but you can see how it goes.
I mentioned this back a ways, but ff you ever do want to be able to listen to the coach radio, you can wire that second wire to the house instead of the start battery (so then all coach radio power comes from the house, not the start battery). I followed BobW's lead on this. I used the former VCR wire, but that's not the only option. Just so you know for future reference. You'd still only lose the presets if/when you disconnected the house batteries, which if you are full-timing won't probably be very often ('course if you're moving around presets may not be that useful anyway).
BG
PS: A couple of days is still kind of soon for the start battery to go flat (after all cars may not be started for two days and they still have that "hot" stereo power wire). Possibly it's been damaged by going flat a number of times. So it may be that you'll want to replace it soonish - but you can see how it goes.
1999 Concourse