Congratulations on your '97 Eurovan = purchase! Hope your house battery was just low, and needed charging and the = problem is now past history. When I bought my '95 EVC I found that the dealer had let = the house battery discharge; due to its discharged condition it had frozen and = cracked the case and needed to be replaced. I spent a lot of time trying to = neutralize and clean up the acid in the battery box. The new battery I installed fixed = the problem. If the vehicle isn't used for a period of time (say a couple = weeks) the house battery should be charged by plugging the vehicle in overnight. = The propane alarm is a continual slight drain on the battery. If I'm going = to park my camper unused for a while I remove the fuse for the propane alarm and = replace it when I'm going to use the camper again.