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Also, if your meter leads are long enough, you can check from the positive stud on the generator back to the negative battery post. If you have good voltage it's almost certainly an issue between the battery negative post and the vehicle ground.
the #6 cable you moved might be part of the issue, but it's not the only possibility. If your ground cable isn't making a good connection to the shunt and then to vehicle ground you can check every positive connection on the truck and still not see voltage.
I haven't seen it yet, but do you...
If you have 24 at the batteries and a lot less than that at the slave receptacle, then you definitely have a bad connection or bad wire somewhere in the box. Most likely having to do with the ground wire from the rear battery to shunt.
Slave cable connects to the same posts as the battery does...
Yes, still red for positive and black for negative (I went out and double checked my truck just to be sure)
Positive to the red connector on the wall of the battery box towards the front of the vehicle, in the center of the box is a DC shunt where the negative attaches. It looks like in your...
I'm assuming by "red marked shunt" you mean the positive connection on the side of the battery box. I may be wrong with terminology but the shunt is where the negative cable connects then ha a bunch of bars to connect it to the vehicle ground.
Do you show voltage when you check the negative...
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