Adding a House Battery
I have a Fourwind Five Thousand and I am planning on going dry camping in January. I have one 12 volt house battery and I am considering adding a battery next to the one I have in a storage compartmen...
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TreeSeeker wrote:TyroneAndGladys wrote:
On our RV we have two house batteries with one being under the hood and the second one in a battery compartment at the rear of the RV.
Are you sure those are both "house" batteries? Typically battery under the hood is for the engine and the battery in the back is for the "house." Sometimes they are both under the hood.
It is not good to install different types of batteries in parallel as the better one will be weakened by the weaker one and one is always getting overcharged and the other is getting undercharged.
Articles about RV electrical systems:
BATTERIES--AND OTHER ELECTRIC STUFF
The 12v Side of Life
Intro to Dry Camping
Battery Education
Yes two batteries under hood and one in compartment in back. Take cables off of battery on left side engine will not start. reinstall cables unhook cables off other battery engine starts. The only reason that I went to two different batteries is that if you want to check the water level in the back battery you have to remove the battery and that is a MAJOR pia and I did not want to spend the money for two AMG batteries.
