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    Posted: 06 Jul 2013 at 9:40am
On our second camping trip with pod pluged into power. Battery is only showing 2/3 charged is this normal when pluged into power or should it be showing full charge .
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Posts: 672 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Jul 2013 at 9:54am
Ours always shows full charge on shore power. Goose
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Posts: 18 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Jul 2013 at 10:18am
Ok so when I hook to tv shows full power again what could b the problem any idea
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Posts: 571 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Jul 2013 at 10:23am
Make sure the water level in the battery is topped up with distilled water or good quality bottled water- low additives.  When pugged in to the TV, you are reading its battery charge level, and the trailer battery when using shore power.
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Ok can see water in battery . Converter fan doesn't same to be kicking in either.
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K think maybe I was reading panel wrong has a side for battery that has a c g f l assuming f means full now which is reading feel like fool am I correct lol thanks all.
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Posts: 18 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Jul 2013 at 11:19am
Wife wanted me to let it be known that she was the one that figured it out lol.
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Ok so weren't so dumb dealership had put in 15amp fuses for converter replaced with 40 amps seems to be working fine now.
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Posts: 1797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Jul 2013 at 1:49pm
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Ok so weren't so dumb dealership had put in 15amp fuses for converter replaced with 40 amps seems to be working fine now.


Aren't dealerships wonderful?
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