Are any of you Monaco Gurus in the Panhandle of Florida? We lot our Duvac in Christiansburg Va just before Thanksgiving. Spent a 19 degree night in the rest area with NO heat or anything.. they replaced the alternator(minor fiasco) hooking up new from duvac wires. Researched and found this thread. Am ordering the ML-ACR today.
I have been piecing together little symptoms that tell me either the lambert or ssi is bad. Oh and first thing replaced was the BigBoy. slowly am learning electrical, what a challenge.
We have a 2003 Monaco Signature. 1st time RV owners. I want to find knowledgeable work for this. I have repaired the AC units and refridgerator myself. but am not confident to do this changeover.
Anyone willing to help a gal out?
the roadside assistance couldn't replace the dead batteries that night. they did get us jumped, but engine only ran for a short time. Generator could not be started, not enough juice, the batteries they had on hand had screw connectors not posts. The generator wouldn't start. not enough battery. when we first bought it last january the house batteries wouldn't stay charged the big boy was bad. we needed to run the aquahot to keep it from freezing. Ned wired a 50amp service from the house to the rv so we had aquahot. the previous owner had a trickle charger hooked up to the chassis batteries. we needed to use a charger for the batteries to keep charged. Even with shore power they won't stay charged.
when we left to come to Florida I had no heat in the coach, then the tranny started shifting weird. I immediately pulled over in the rest area. the batteries were dead. ended up waiting till morning and I took the car and bought 2 new batteries, and then drove to O'riellys and they tested the alternator, bad. so drove back to Christiansburg to total car care roadside and they found an alternator via the vin number. hooked it up wrong. no heat, no electricity. they finally got it right, but chassis batteries won't stay charged.