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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bobndot wrote:
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.
The Trik-L-Start won't do that, at least not to any appreciable extent, because it only charges the chassis battery when the house battery voltage is above a certain threshold (I think high enough that the house battery is actually being charged). Otherwise, it's basically an open circuit. I guess the LED indicator would consume a few milliamps.
Without some source of energy, your batteries will run themselves down eventually (self-discharge) even with nothing attached--relatively quickly in warm temperatures, more slowly in cold temperatures. For long term storage, there's basically no way around needing solar or something to keep them charged.
