Battery Charging Problem ***UPDATE***
While dry camping in freezing weather, the charging system died for the dual type 24 house batteries (2002 Winnebago Mini). It appears to be a solenoid system. It failed two years ago and the RV s...
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I was thinking about long term storage in the future without shore power, I was going to try a Trik L Start but thought it might eventually run down both house AND chassis batteries while parked, not plugged in to shore power, while parked long term. It seems to me that the chassis battery will eventually deplete the house bank unless you also have solar in place.
My chassis battery does run down over a week or so.
As an experiment, I already have an automatic Battery Tender Solar panel in a 10 watt size to use as a maintainer, so I tried that to maintain the chassis battery. I leave it on my dash. Seems to be working so far. I just tried this solar maintainer as an experiment to see if it would work, if I ever do store this rv. I normally just leave my rv plugged into shore power and not worry about batteries period.
My chassis battery does run down over a week or so.
As an experiment, I already have an automatic Battery Tender Solar panel in a 10 watt size to use as a maintainer, so I tried that to maintain the chassis battery. I leave it on my dash. Seems to be working so far. I just tried this solar maintainer as an experiment to see if it would work, if I ever do store this rv. I normally just leave my rv plugged into shore power and not worry about batteries period.
