So I camped last night for the first time in my recently purchased 1981
burro. The previous owner said he had just installed a Progressive Dynamics 9200 series converter/battery charger (
https://docs.google.com/gview?url=ht...lish.pdf&pli=1) and that the
battery was fairly new. When I bought it, the
battery had about 60% charge or so.
The main reason I went camping last night was to charge the
battery (i can't plug it in at home because i live in a city, and keep the
burro stored at a storage place). So I plugged it in to shore power, and had the ceiling fan running on 10v and the
porch light on 10v on all night. We also had a big box fan plugged in and running off 120v AC shore power. Before I went to bed, the 'charge wizard' remote on my PD9245 was blinking, suggesting the converter was charging the battery in 'normal' mode (13.6v).
I wake up around 2am and notice the
porch light is considerably dim. Didn't think much of it because I am very new to this. Wake up in the morning and the
lights are pretty much dead, and so is the ceiling fan. The converter is still blinking, saying its 'charging' the battery.
So now my battery is sitting almost completely empty and I have to find a way to fix it. I am about to run out to see it with multimeter and check it out, but was wondering if anyone could give me any tips.
I checked all the connections and it seems to be hooked up fine. I checked the fuses on the converter and they were not blown. The +/- connections look to be OK. The converter is plugged into an outlet in the
burro, and +/- leads leading to the +/- leads of the battery. I plugged the 120v AC fan directly into the shore power connection at the campsite and it ran, so I assume the shore power source was OK.
One last question - it is a 45amp power converter (with a 20amp 2 prong connection). Can I plug this in to a normal house outlet to charge the battery or will it trip the house circuit breaker?