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So I am looking at a 96 Callista Cove class c with less than 40k miles. All lights were on inside the coach and both the engine and generator were running. Seemed that the lights were a little dim. Turned off the generator and all lights immediately were their normal bright. What the heck? Anybody have any ideas? Is this normal? Another thing - sat in the driver seat and it felt like it was 100k miles old or a 400 lb person had been in it for 40k miles. Maybe the odometer has been turned back?
Well let's take a look here for a sec, when the RV engine is running it will charge the batteries and take care of the DC volts, that would be the RV camper lights, the generator runs the AC volts and has a small DC charger maybe 8 amps that adds to the charge, could be a bad DC ground or lose positive DC wire off the generator or the battery.
Follow the DC wire from the generator to the battery or batteries and put a voltmeter gauge on different spots of the wire till you come to the batteries, follow the wire, could be a short in the wire, charging should be at 14.0 volts to 14.8, hope this helps, just my thoughts.
Lonney
-- Edited by Lonney Wade on Thursday 7th of November 2013 03:51:47 PM
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I'm with Lonney on a loose connection on the power cables. Also test the house batteries for short. IMO I wouldn't buy an rv knowing it had electrical issues, have the owner resolve these first. Best of luck in your search.
