Re: (ET) Totally dead E20, thoughts?

["Tim Humphrey" <hump evgrin com>]

OK.

Disconnect the cable that connects those two batteries and measure again.
If you still get the ground fault, clean the batteries, if not inspect
that cable really well.

Is one of these two batteries your stinker by any chance?

It might not really be a stinker but is just self discharging through a
leakage path.



> Nothing connects between the rear two batteries, that's the problem :-)
> They connect to themselves, and that's it. Totally insane.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Tim Humphrey wrote:
>> That's where your fault is. Check everything that connects directly to
>> the
>> the connection point between the two rear batteries.
>>
>> I believe one of the 18 volt taps are there isn't it? I do not have a
>> schematic in front of me at the moment.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>I know I have a ground fault now (it's insane: I can measure voltage to
>>>frame even with the main switch off, however the only place it is at
>>> zero
>>>volts is between the rear two batteries. Everywhere else it's a function
>>>of
>>>6 volts up or down the ladder) so this was probably a double fault.
>>>
>
>


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