Tuesday, June 16There we were, motoring along southbound Interstate 71 in Ohio, heading for a Harvest Host location for the night. Suddenly, all the gauges in the RVs dashboard turned off! They turn back on immediately and we motored on wondering what was going on.Less for a couple miles later, the gauge needles went down again and stayed down and the engine quit. I pulled over onto a flat spot on the shoulder of the interstate and noticed I had no electrical power as the hazard lights were not coming on. We had also smelled a burning smell just before we stopped, and I found that burnt terminals at a solenoid mounted on the firewall of the RV. I also noted that we have no power in the habitat area. Examination of the house battery showed that the Coulomb meter's input terminal had come in contact with the house battery's positive terminal and generated quite a lot of heat and sparks!So much so, that the cable going from the output terminal of the meter had actually melted right where…
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