jwnall
Moderator Emeritus
Since this took me a bit of troubleshooting, just thought I would share my experience and perhaps save someone else some trouble.
I have been having trouble with my Xantrex TrueCharge 2 battery charger lately. It would quit operating, and the fault light would be on and also the "chgr" light. The troubleshooting part of the manual said to call Xantrex if this happened, so I did so. Spoke to a nice guy who said to try resetting it. Turns out this means to disconnect it from the A/C line and from the batteries and let it sit for at least an hour. I did so, connected it back up, and it began working again. About a week later, the same thing. So I again reset it, and it worked again. However, the last time I went in and cleaned the battery terminals good and tightened all the connections good. So far it has been about a month now and the problem has not reoccurred. It may just be coincidence, but I think that the charger is just really sensitive to corrosion and terminals which are not sufficiently tight. If anyone else has an opinion on this I would be pleased to hear it.
John
I have been having trouble with my Xantrex TrueCharge 2 battery charger lately. It would quit operating, and the fault light would be on and also the "chgr" light. The troubleshooting part of the manual said to call Xantrex if this happened, so I did so. Spoke to a nice guy who said to try resetting it. Turns out this means to disconnect it from the A/C line and from the batteries and let it sit for at least an hour. I did so, connected it back up, and it began working again. About a week later, the same thing. So I again reset it, and it worked again. However, the last time I went in and cleaned the battery terminals good and tightened all the connections good. So far it has been about a month now and the problem has not reoccurred. It may just be coincidence, but I think that the charger is just really sensitive to corrosion and terminals which are not sufficiently tight. If anyone else has an opinion on this I would be pleased to hear it.
John