Ruck_and_Roll
Senior Member
Hello y'all.
Well anyways I have a 2008 Hawk. I've done a few electrical upgrades (with the help of the forum and everything has performed flawlessly).
-IQ4 addon
-Victorn Battery Monitor
-Victron 75/15 charge controller with 160 watt solar
-125 AH AGM battery VMAX Tank
until...
I recently removed my Surepower 1314. (I believe it had failed as I was getting inconsistent truck charging). So I put in the BlueSea 7622 w/the manual control. The manual switch works.
Truck charging is fine now. I can tell with the battery monitor I am getting amps in when it is dark out (solar not working), switch is "on" and truck is running and in neutral, battery gets charged.
Not sure if this coincidence or not but this is the crux of the issue...I have had intermittent failure with any of the electrical devices that are wired through the Iota.
1. First time it happened was a few weeks ago I was out boondocking and switched on the power and theonly thing that was powered was the FWC battery monitor and water gauge (believe they are wired seperately from the Iota). Had adequate battery power. Returned home in the afternoon the following day and went to go troubleshoot and everything worked fine.
2. Second time it happened was this morning. Yesterday evening, operated the water pump, and the exterior and interior lights (Iota). Everything worked fine. This morning I got up to fire up the furnace and switched on an interior light, and it went on for about 5 minutes, then it was almost like something tripped, lights flicked off, then back on and furnace restarted. Shortly thereafter everything went dead (except for the FWC monitors). Battery at about 12.8 volts. So it happened a second time. Returned home today to do some troubleshooting, plug into AC, and ready to open everything up and have a peek inside but all the Iota fixtures are again functional.
Anyone have any ideas before I go down an electrical rabbit hole?
Best,
Luke
Well anyways I have a 2008 Hawk. I've done a few electrical upgrades (with the help of the forum and everything has performed flawlessly).
-IQ4 addon
-Victorn Battery Monitor
-Victron 75/15 charge controller with 160 watt solar
-125 AH AGM battery VMAX Tank
until...
I recently removed my Surepower 1314. (I believe it had failed as I was getting inconsistent truck charging). So I put in the BlueSea 7622 w/the manual control. The manual switch works.
Truck charging is fine now. I can tell with the battery monitor I am getting amps in when it is dark out (solar not working), switch is "on" and truck is running and in neutral, battery gets charged.
Not sure if this coincidence or not but this is the crux of the issue...I have had intermittent failure with any of the electrical devices that are wired through the Iota.
1. First time it happened was a few weeks ago I was out boondocking and switched on the power and theonly thing that was powered was the FWC battery monitor and water gauge (believe they are wired seperately from the Iota). Had adequate battery power. Returned home in the afternoon the following day and went to go troubleshoot and everything worked fine.
2. Second time it happened was this morning. Yesterday evening, operated the water pump, and the exterior and interior lights (Iota). Everything worked fine. This morning I got up to fire up the furnace and switched on an interior light, and it went on for about 5 minutes, then it was almost like something tripped, lights flicked off, then back on and furnace restarted. Shortly thereafter everything went dead (except for the FWC monitors). Battery at about 12.8 volts. So it happened a second time. Returned home today to do some troubleshooting, plug into AC, and ready to open everything up and have a peek inside but all the Iota fixtures are again functional.
Anyone have any ideas before I go down an electrical rabbit hole?
Best,
Luke