Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 15:55:15 -0700
Reply-To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
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From: Jim Arnott <jrasite@EONI.COM>
Subject: Re: Battery Woahs Part II
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David will pipe in with the technical, but right off the top of my head, if those are UA12200 12v batteries, you want positive to positive, negative to negative. The way you’ve described it, you have a 36v 22 amp battery.
Jim
> On Jul 3, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Jeremy Stovin <jjstov@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> First, thank you for all the wonderful advices.
>
> I first started by determining my aux battery was dead and needed to be replaced. I took some advice and bought 3 wheelchair batteries and linked in a series, so I have 12v and 66amps.
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> Here is where I go wrong. The wiring was not original to begin with, even before me. I figured that other than connecting the series, I just reconnect the wires that went to positive and went to negative and it should be done. (I still need to determine the draw).
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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.
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> So, I am not sure what I did that messed this up.
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> There were three wires at that terminal that I reconnected. One comes from the Yandina, one comes from the original relay switch, and a third that goes back to the kitchen. I do not think I mixed or messed anything up.
>
>
> Here are some anomalies that occurred which may or may not have affected this.
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> 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. 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)
> 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.
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> Soon after that, I noticed the green light lit on the Yandina.
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> Does anyone know where I may have gone wrong and how I can fix it?
>
> Jeremy '87 Westy
>
> Sent from my iPad
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