Battery longevity
Purchased our 5th wheel new in July 2012. During the past winter I disconnected the cables from the battery. Went out for a weekend in March and battery was OK. Since then I have tried to charge at...
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X2 on what WRONGWAY says...
I got my OFF-ROAD trailer in 2008 and finally got my battery bank up to 255AHs in early 2009...
My batteries from 2009 are still going strong. They are just now starting to show some lack of performance.
I watch my DV VOLTS like a hawk using my Battery Monitor SETUP and make sure if my Batteries get drained down to 12.0VDC that I will start up a re-charge when camping off the power grid.
I leave my batteries on the permanant charge when sitting in CAMP BACKYARD so most of the time my Battery Monitor Panel is reading 13.6VDC or 13.2 VDC. I can watch the smart mode battery charge process go throught its steps using the battery monitor.
I also still check my battery fluids on a regular basis but seem to always find the levels normal since I installed the smart mode converter/charger setup in 2009.
Has worked out great for us over thepast five years. We camp off thepower grid for the most part and can do as many as 12-14 cycles of 50% to 90% State of Charge and the batteries perform great. Each of these smart mode charges takes around three hour to complete. After theses many battery charge cycles then you start noticing the battery bank doesnt want to hold the charge as long as before and this is when you should re-charge to a full 100% charge which in my case takes around 12 hours of samrt mode charging.
As long as you monitor your batteries and never let them drop below the 50% charge state before re-charging back up to at least 90% SOC you should be able to get a few years out of them
Roy Ken
I got my OFF-ROAD trailer in 2008 and finally got my battery bank up to 255AHs in early 2009...
My batteries from 2009 are still going strong. They are just now starting to show some lack of performance.
I watch my DV VOLTS like a hawk using my Battery Monitor SETUP and make sure if my Batteries get drained down to 12.0VDC that I will start up a re-charge when camping off the power grid.
I leave my batteries on the permanant charge when sitting in CAMP BACKYARD so most of the time my Battery Monitor Panel is reading 13.6VDC or 13.2 VDC. I can watch the smart mode battery charge process go throught its steps using the battery monitor.
I also still check my battery fluids on a regular basis but seem to always find the levels normal since I installed the smart mode converter/charger setup in 2009.
Has worked out great for us over thepast five years. We camp off thepower grid for the most part and can do as many as 12-14 cycles of 50% to 90% State of Charge and the batteries perform great. Each of these smart mode charges takes around three hour to complete. After theses many battery charge cycles then you start noticing the battery bank doesnt want to hold the charge as long as before and this is when you should re-charge to a full 100% charge which in my case takes around 12 hours of samrt mode charging.
As long as you monitor your batteries and never let them drop below the 50% charge state before re-charging back up to at least 90% SOC you should be able to get a few years out of them
Roy Ken
