Day 41 New charger tomorrow

We took out the charger this morning and took off for Portland.  Glad we did as when the repair facility put it on the bench for testing, it came back quite bleak.  The unit was badly fried.  Burnt circuit board and wires inside the unit.  It is supposed to be nice and shiny but ours was blackened and charred.  It was so bad that the tech was amazed that it hadn't caught on fire at some time.   The malfunction had fried all 6 of our 6 volt batteries.  After I had replaced them, the unit just kept on charging.  With it on--14.5 volts.  Even with it turned off, it still kept charging at 13.4 volts.  The batteries normally have a charge of 12.8 at full charge.  It shouldn't be charging when turned off!  With the charger out, they did read 12.7 volts--that's normal. 

Tomorrow I'll install it and see what happens.  We got back to late to do it tonight.  

More rain and lots of wind today.  Perfect time to go to Portland.  A long trip but necessary.

Stay tuned for more info tomorrow.  Sure hope it works.