Resurrecting the Dead Monty

[Bill-N-Donna]

Our Monty has been in hibernation for 2-3 months without being plugged into any electric. As expected the battery was completely dead no lights, no slides, not-a, nil, nothing, just plum dead.

Some electrical work got finished in our barn today and I now have it plugged back in. It will be so nice to be able to have a light when needed or move the slides. I had to move it out of the way so I had to hand-crank the font jacks.

To my surprise the battery had a good fluid level. I figured it may have been down from not checking it over the last few months while it was still plugged in.

After I started using it last year the gas alarm in the kitchen near the floor was alarming, I thought that wasn’t going to get straightened out but finally it cleared up. At any rate I was wondering if there might be anything unusual that I should keep an eye on after bringing it back to life?

[halfwright]

There is probably some parasitic draw from a TV, DVD player or some other appliance. Unhook or turn off the batteries when it is stored.

[kdeiss]

Always disconnect the battery when storing the gas detector does draw on the battery the gas detector was alarming because it was telling you low battery. If it was me I would remove put on a good battery charger after that i would monitor voltage to see if the battery holds a charge not connected to the trailer

[HOOK]

Hi Bill, check the expiration date on your LP detector, not kidding, they do have a replacement date.

[K0LCB]

According to the National Protection Institute, smoke alarms should be replaced every 5 years

[DQDick]

The gas detectors do go bad often. We've replaced ours already once. Also if the battery could have frozen, charge it back up and then check to see if it's still holding a full charge. Batteries freeze if they are totally discharged.