I specified as part of our deal
that the house batteries had to be replaced. I also
needed to replace the chassis batteries, but wanted to do
some research before I did. I picked up two new Sealed
Lead Acid starting batteries - 12 volt - 1150 cold cranking
amps. Here is what I found when I pulled out the
professionally installed coach batteries. First
picture shows that one of the connecting cables was sitting
on the battery terminal not bolted to it. This is the
same set of new batteries that I had to couple with the
chassis batteries to start the diesel engine! Huge
risk of fire and or explosion.
The second picture - after we
had fixed the poor connection and tested the rest - several
of which were loose. We had difficulty pushing the
tray back in - turns out it was the main cable going from
the battery tray was jammed behind the tray and had
completely worn through the loom protection and had worn the
protective rubber completely off of it. This was also
a huge risk of it going it shorting out. This is
approximately 420 amps at 12 volts.

