Couple of weeks back I posted about putting in new Batteries. I put in deep cycle flooded house battery and flooded starting battery (1000 cca). When I hooked up I could not get my charger to go from "safe" mode to flooded. I figured no big deal for now since only on shore power when in transient marinas and no plans for one soon. Well, low and behold I go to boat Tues eveining to head out for the fourth and BOTH batteries were stone cold dead!! Now MBSS was off, nothing wired directly to the starting battery except the charger. Some things are direct to house batt, like bilge pumps and CO detectors, but boat is rack kept, bilge was bone dry and I removed the fuses on the CO's when left last time (I know a lot of you don't like that but long absences create problems if I don't). So the only thing that makes sense is that the charger drained the batteries, or created a path to the starting battery if something drained the house batt. What am I missing here???
The charger is a Guest "smart charger" with led indicators for battery type. Could the charger be the culprit here. I didn't have charger on since installing the batteries, do I need to activate the charger after new batteries are installed? Manual does not mention this. To eliminate the charger during this absence, I removed the charge line to the batteries temporarily. I will be headed to the boat this weekend and see what happens.
Appreciate Ideas.......:livid:
The charger is a Guest "smart charger" with led indicators for battery type. Could the charger be the culprit here. I didn't have charger on since installing the batteries, do I need to activate the charger after new batteries are installed? Manual does not mention this. To eliminate the charger during this absence, I removed the charge line to the batteries temporarily. I will be headed to the boat this weekend and see what happens.
Appreciate Ideas.......:livid:
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