Single point failure

It might be the case that some owners would want to park their bus, and turn off the master switches, while retaining the ability to lock and alarm the bus with the fob.

What I think is the bad part of Peters incident is that Marathon tech people DIDN'T KNOW HOW THEIR PRODUCT WAS MADE, OR HOW TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM.

Jon, radio transmitters are supposed to be connected directly to the battery terminals with a fuse in both the positive and negative lines. It is the SOP. I will put it on my list of things to do to find out more, unless someone else chimes in. Ray, Warren, Jim S, Mike K, any of you know?

I don't remember exactly why, something to do with safety and radio interference, I think. I don't think the safety is a very big part with the low power CB rig, but a manufacturer must follow accepted practice to avoid the liability issue.


JIM

My CB is connected to the Coach Batteries. There are severall yellow wires attached to the Chasis batteries but I believe they are to the Detroit.

Jim, you are exactly right. I am satisfied with how Marathon built it all, I am just unhappy that when I was locked out and called their 24 hour emergency tech help line, that they were not knowledgeable enough to tell me what to do.

I learned the old fashioned way, by experience. And I hope the rest of POG can learn from my experience rather than having to fork over $500 for a needlessly broken window.

Since we are reading about the most recent door latch failure and with there being many new members that are unaware of past discussions on the door latch and similar/related incidents I am pinging this thread for a re-read by those interested.
Note that on post # 15, there is a link to yet another related episode in the ongoing saga "a little maintenance for the 1,000,000 mile vehicle".

Gee that number doesn't seem so big anymore compared to the numbers coming out of Washington:eek:


JIM