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03-04-2016, 07:08 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SE
Posts: 478
M.O.C. #17167
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Stuck....Low Battery? Level up wont raise? Help?
Left work and headed to pick up Monty at storage. Level up doesnt have enough juice. I trickle charged battery of wintrr inside house and reinstalled e weeks ago. Its been below 32 routinely but not crazy cold. Had her home last weekend to prep for tip.
Now cant raise her. Get Low Voltage wRning or you can hear the power drain without having power to raise. Can I buy another battery and use jumper cables to power this? Any ideas?
Stuck here hooked up trying to charge the battery....should have left a while ago.
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03-04-2016, 07:19 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Winfield
Posts: 7,327
M.O.C. #6846
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Jumper cables from the truck to the battery compartment?
Bingo
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03-04-2016, 07:21 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Winfield
Posts: 7,327
M.O.C. #6846
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Assuming that the battery disconnect in the convenience center is in the correct position to allow the battery to operate?
Bingo
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03-04-2016, 07:41 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SE
Posts: 478
M.O.C. #17167
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Working now after just letting Truck charge. Took an hour
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03-05-2016, 04:52 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Omaha
Posts: 6,750
M.O.C. #7560
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You posted before I got to read this and I had the same problem. I talked to Lippert and they told me to hook up a battery charger to get the batteries to operate the level-up system and got the unit hooked up to the TV. Checked the batteries and found one of them was bad. The dealer replaced the battery at no charge and it has worked since. The batteries were less than 6 months old and the unit had been plugged in the whole time in storage so just got a bad battery on the install.
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03-05-2016, 04:56 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SE
Posts: 478
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Thanks Rondo. Ill check out the battery and I think Ill put a 2nd one in just as a backup. Did you put the 2nd battrry in? Do it youself job or best to let the dealer install?
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03-06-2016, 03:09 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Wilsey
Posts: 18,799
M.O.C. #11455
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Before solar I added a second battery. It was no big deal. Hardest part was finding a two battery vented box and I got that from a Marine supply store.
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03-06-2016, 05:03 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Sequim
Posts: 527
M.O.C. #17176
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We just bought our 3720 a couple months ago it came with two batteries, so did our HighCountry we bought three years prior to this one.. I presume it depends on the dealer whether they install one or two batteries in your Monty.
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03-30-2016, 09:48 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: miami
Posts: 152
M.O.C. #13290
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get extra batteries
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03-30-2016, 04:49 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Lake Gaston
Posts: 8,773
M.O.C. #12156
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Have never had a problem when operating with properly charged batteries
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2002 3655 FL, 2005 3650RK
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03-31-2016, 05:41 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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The level up draws a lot of amps if you have the PT 50C or similar operate the level up while wife or you look at the amp draw on that leg..Very educational.
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03-31-2016, 06:18 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: SE
Posts: 478
M.O.C. #17167
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Am removing the one 12v and replacing with 2 Trojan T145 6v in series. My understanding is that will give me many more amps.
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