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Setec power supply in Jayco Caravan

Submitted: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:11

OldBikerPete

I live in Melbourne and I have recently bought a 2005 Jayco Expanda caravan which has a 12V combined power supply, battery charger and power distribution system, model ST-35 made for Jayco by Setec. As part of the check-over I have had the 'van connected to house power over a weekend to charge the on-board battery. After a couple of days I checked the voltage at the battery and it was only 12.0 Volts. Followed this back to the controller and found the same voltage at the controller's Bat+ve pin. Disconnected the battery and it still displayed only 12.0 Volt.
This corresponds to a battery which is only half-charged and Setec's spec. which came with the van says it should be 13.7+/-0.1 volt, which is more like it.

Where in Melbourne, other than Jayco themselves or a Jayco dealer can I take the unit to have the charging voltage corrected?
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AnswerID: 237247   Submitted: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 at 20:26

Anthony replied:

I would take it back to your jayco dealer. If its out of warranty, I would expect that jayco would still offer to replace the ST35 for little or no cost.

The following is a link to the Setec website where you can download a pdf of the ST35 manual.

www.setec.com.au/pages/st35-II.html

I have found the service crew at Bayswater jayco to be very helpful.
Cheers Anthony
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AnswerID: 237576   Submitted: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 at 23:48

Muzzgit [WA] replied:

First check the circuit breaker. Jayco put these in the silliest places and the little button gets accidentally bumped and hey presto, you have no 240v going to anything.
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Cheers,
Muzz.

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