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Originally Posted by gwduncan
Couple questions:
1. One week batteries working great. Next week after packing for overnight cruise 8D battery DEAD. Main panel looked OK no definite reason. Is this common?
2. Even tho generator battery was fully charged (via hand held volt meter) generator would not start. Why wouldn't generator start with fully charged auxiliary battery?
3. Now that new 8D battery is installed everything is working properly, BUT volt meter on main inside panel registers zero volts. Any suggestions ?
Gary Duncan
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Welcome Gary,
1. Not common, but it does happen. When I bought my boat everything worked great at the survey. A couple weeks later the genset wouldn't start. The battery was toast. No reason other than it died of old age and starting the genset at the survey was its farewell performance,
2. New boat to you? It doesn't make any sense that the genset wouldn't start with the genset battery and yet start fine after replacing the house battery. Are you sure it is the genset battery? It is actually connected to the genset starter? Were the two batteries combined and it was really the old 8D that was doing all the work and now the new 8D is doing the work?
3. Something is wrong with either how it is wired or something odd with your switches somewhere.
Time to start tracing cables for both batteries and draw up a schematic.