We had our Scamp out for our first excursion about 10 days ago. Used shore power at the campground. Have a connector for the car that supposedly powers the refrigerator while we are driving down the road, that seemed to work.
Had a great time! Came home and parked it, turned off all the switches, left it until yesterday. Went out to check on it to get ready to go next weekend, the 12 volt lights did not work. Battery dead?
We decided to plug it in to the house overnight. Got the brand new adapter and extension cord out, hooked it up...we had lights! Great! We left it hooked up until this afternoon. Unhooked it...no 12 volt lights.
Should the battery have recharged overnight? Are we doing something wrong? Are we totally off track? Do we need to flip something in the breaker box? How do we recharge the battery?
Get your handy multimeter out and check your battery. If you don't have one, it is a very necessary addition to all RV setup boxes.
My hunch is your battery will be fine when you check it with the multimeter, which will indicate you've most likely blown a fuse somewhere. Another very common occurrence if you have a pull out power cord is that it gets tangled with the 12v line to the converter and yanks it out when you pull out or store the power cord. Check under the bench at the converter and make sure it hasn't become detached. If everything is still connected start checking fuses.
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On my NEW 2015 13' Scamp the battery terminal connectors were so poorly crimped that the battery would not charge. Didn't figure this out until we were a thousand mile from home! Went to WalMart and bought a crimping tool and new terminal ends. After redoing the connections at the battery everything worked Wow! If your battery is discharged and you are running the frig on 12 volts while driving your TV doesn't have enough output to put much into the battery. The 12 volt mode for the frig is the least efficient of the three modes If you stop at a rest stop, even for just a few minutes, you should turn off the 12 volt mode for the frig. We put our frig on LPG every time we stop. Then we put it back on 12 volts when getting back on the road. If the frig is nice and cold it will stay cold turned off for a few hours at moderate temps. The Battery SHOULD be charging when ever you are plugged in to shore power.