2008 Tioga battery questions

ksmoody wrote:

1. Is it better to use something like the "TRIK-L-CHARGE" to charge the chassis battery?

2. When I'm plugged into shore power at home. Is it ok to leave the RV plugged in for a week or so to keep the batteries charged?

3. How often should I check the water level in the batteries?

1. Unless you have BIRD or some similar device, your Chassis Battery won't charge unless you use a trickle charger or as many do, a solar panel. That said, how often do you use the RV? I can park ours at least a month and it'll still start on a very old battery.

2. As noted, depends on the quality of your Converter/Charger. We have an IOTA from 2002 and can stay plugged in with the Battery Switch ON for weeks at a time.

3. Suggest you start out with checking monthly. You'll soon find out if that's too often. If it isn't often enough, your battery is being overcharged. We can go six months in FL on our WalMart deep cycle/trolling Coach/House Battery.

You didn't ask, but what about your Tire Maintenance? Like many others here, it took me awhile to realize how good a set of custom tire valves Like these Borg Dually Valves is. I can check all six in literally a minute. They also don't leak any air, so I can now simply check, going months without adding air. Used to have to do a miserable checking and airing up process about monthly.