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>>> However, all done, and seemed correct, went over and tinkered with the
>>> starter battery for a bit. Went back to the aux and noticed my isolator
>>> was not isolating. How do I know! I have a Yandina combined/isolator that
>>> has a light go on when combined.
>
> Was the engine running? Shouldn't the Yandina combine the batteries
> when the engine is running?
>
>
>>> Here are some anomalies that occurred which may or may not have affected
>>> this.
>>>
>>> 1. While connecting all the wires back to the batteries, which was quite
>>> difficult, I may have touch a ground or something because I heard a click
>>> or pop come from the fuse box.
>
> Maybe there's a load at dash that comes on when you supply power to it?
> (connect aux. batteries)
>
>>> I looked, but did not see anything obvious
>>> and did not pull every fuse to see what shorted. I figured I would wait to
>>> see what would not work. Everything seemed to work ( but not sure if the
>>> power was coming from aux or house or both)
>
> I would suggest that you check all fuses first.
> Do you have two aux. battery systems?
>
>>> 2. I was going to pull out the house battery and because of the tight fit,
>>> I hit the metal frame of the box and there were a lot of sparks, and even
>>> scarred my wrench. I aborted pulling the house battery, but all
>>> accessories still worked.
>
> Assuming you accidentally connected ("hit") the battery + to the vehicle frame,
> what happened makes sense; there would've been no fuse between that
> + post and vehicle frame.
>
> Neil.
>
>
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