Disconnect batteries?
We just got our new 42'6" long rv - our first. It is being stored in the park where we will live in it 6 mos of the year, beginning in May. Two questions: 1) When connected to shore power, should the ...
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dvv711 wrote:
Okay, well now you've got me totally confused. Trackig, you said there are TWO sets of batteries - and several cables. We have only 2 batteries, in the front generator compartment - the negative side on each has 2 cables running from them. That's it. There's no other battery that we have found on the RV.
I know that to you it sounds simple...but to a couple who know nothing about electricity or batteries - other than how to jump start car batteries - what you just outlined sounds daunting. Ours is an Open Range 3x, 42'6" long. With a battery disconnect lever. Anyone know if there are some other batteries somewhere we don't know about??
That's because people were talking about what =could= happen in a motor home. Why they're talking about that in a FW forum, when it's not even a pertinent example, I don't know. You =did= mention what you had in your 3rd post, the 8th overall to the thread, so it's not like people didn't know what you had.
FWIW, I had not realized that some mfrs leave the detectors hot all the time, even with the disconnect OFF. To me, that defeats the purpose of the thing.
Lyle
