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Hark582, The Battery Minder will do more than maintain a battery. The Battery Minder has a desulfation mode. This is a high frequency pulsation tuned to the resonant energy of lead sulfate. This energy keeps sulfation from occuring and, with time, breaks down sufate crystals that may already be present. A weak battery will slowly be restored. In my case my 2005 engine battery was down to only 30% charge. With the Battery Minder it ultimately recovered to greater than 90% and by "equalizing" the cells recovered to nearly 100%... and still is in use today. It is not necessary to disconnect your battery. Just the opposite. Leave the Battery Minder connected at all times if you wish. That way whenever you have 120v power, you maintain the engine battery. The only caveat is that the Battery Minder uses a small current and should be disconnected for storage. **** from FL

Hi marchalpern, We have one of those Mercedes 5-cylinder diesel "Sprinter" class C motorhomes from Winnebago with 39,000 miles. There has been the notorious "turbo resonator" problem in the engine which is a no-charge service from Dodge. The only coach problems so far are the Kwikee electric steps jamming three times and a faulty electrical cable connector. The step fix requires removal of the clevis pin (very difficult) to disconnect the steps from the drive arm, then merely loosening the three bolts to the gear box (very simple). The symptoms of the other problem was an cold related simultaneous failure of the slide-out and electric step on/off switch. We resorted to taking the problem to the Winnebago plant in Iowa. The service people there could not analyze the cause. The intermittent problem persisted and got worse until it failed entirely in hot weather. From the wiring diagrams I located the single line where the power branches to the step on/off switch and the slide-out switch. Tracing that line I found a pinched female connector prevented the male pin from entering. In assembly the connectors were obviously forced together. This broke the retaining prongs on the female connector and pushed it back into the connector housing. Instead of the normal pin-in-tube connection there was only a fragile pin-touching-tube connection. When cold, contraction would break the connection. Upon warming it would expand to remake the connection. Ultimately vibration finally permanently broke the connection. I have taken the Winnebago plant tour three times because it is so impressive. After seeing the good work they do it is hard to imagine why one of their people would force a bad connector rather than flagging the problem for repair. **** from Florida