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Open Roads Forum  >  Tech Issues  > House battery & generator Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  golfch1x • View posts Ohio New Member Joined: 03/02/2009 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Offline Posted: 11/02/09 06:24am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator So I put my 2008 Jayco Melbourne Class C in storage this weekend. Took the house battery out and have it on the Battery Minder in my garage. I wanted to run the on board generator once I got to the storage location so I could run some Stabil through the gas lines. When I went to start up my generator I couldn't. I'm assuming that is because I removed the house battery? My steps to my coach worked and I am assuming they ran off the truck battery? So why wouldn;t my generator do the same? I thought that was what a generator was for, when you had no electric hook up and didn't want to draw off your house battery you used your generator? So shouldn;t it be able to start without the house battery? Golfchix MNtundraRet • View posts Bloomington, MN Senior Member Joined: 12/06/2007 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/02/09 07:28am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Most RV's start off the deep-cycle house-battery bank. The generators do not need the heavy amp draw from a starting battery. The starting battery is more likely to discharge in storage versus the house-batteries on disconnect. I leave both sets of batteries in my motor-home during storage, with a 9-watt solar panel hooked to each battery-bank (two separate solar-panels). For your specific purpose of getting stabilizer into the generator, you could return with the battery and jumper-cables to start the generator and run it a while. Then take the battery back home. Mark Mark & Jan "Old age & treachery win over youth & enthusiasm" 2003 Fleetwood Jamboree 29 Sandia Man • View posts Rio Rancho, NM Senior Member Joined: 08/09/2008 View Profile Posted: 11/02/09 08:16am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Most onboard generators requires a house battery to start. Good idea running Stabil in your genny, keeps mine purring while exercising it through the winter months. Polishnurse • View posts Schodack, NY Senior Member Joined: 03/13/2007 View Profile Offline Posted: 11/02/09 12:21pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator As Sandia Man mentioned, you could have tried pushing the battery boost button, that should have activated a rely that would have tied the coach to house battery. Bill Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Open Roads Forum  >  Tech Issues  > House battery & generator

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