Battery charging slow
Hi All,
We went camping last weekend. We were plugged in to 50 amp. My Xantrex 3000 inverter charger was operating. The inverter was installed about a year ago upgraded to run my residential refrigerator while traveling and overnighting without shore power. I have the inverter set up to power the TV, the micro. a couple of plugs and my residential refrigerator. It was kind of cold so we were running a 1500 watt electric heater from time to time. The heater was not on the inverter. We were using a lot of power.
Everything worked fine except I notice my batteries stayed charging bulk charge for several hours then to absorb and finally float. When we had a lot of things operating the heater, tv, lights the charger went back to bulk. The batteries charged at bulk for most of the weekend.
It is my understanding when plugged into shore power the transfer switch changed everything over to shore power so the items running through the inverter did not run from the batteries. Is this correct? So, the only thing that the inverter/charger would be doing is charging the batteries. There was no problem running everything although the batteries just did not seem to stay charges.
When I bought the RV about a year and a half ago the seller said the batteries would be good for a few more years so I know they will be needing replacement (4-6 volt) I have maintained the batteries and when I got home, I checked a few cells and all were good.
Upon inspecting the batteries, I noticed the date stamp was from August of 2005. I guess I never really though about the date before. Is it possible the batteries are that old and still good but not keeping a good charge? When we Walmart parked a couple of times this summer I though the batteries were low in the morning only running the ref. overnight.
Do you think my batteries could be that old or did they not update the stickers to 2010 -2020 If that is the case my batteries could be from 2015.
Do you think this is old batteries needing replacement or is something else going on.
I appreciate the help as always
We went camping last weekend. We were plugged in to 50 amp. My Xantrex 3000 inverter charger was operating. The inverter was installed about a year ago upgraded to run my residential refrigerator while traveling and overnighting without shore power. I have the inverter set up to power the TV, the micro. a couple of plugs and my residential refrigerator. It was kind of cold so we were running a 1500 watt electric heater from time to time. The heater was not on the inverter. We were using a lot of power.
Everything worked fine except I notice my batteries stayed charging bulk charge for several hours then to absorb and finally float. When we had a lot of things operating the heater, tv, lights the charger went back to bulk. The batteries charged at bulk for most of the weekend.
It is my understanding when plugged into shore power the transfer switch changed everything over to shore power so the items running through the inverter did not run from the batteries. Is this correct? So, the only thing that the inverter/charger would be doing is charging the batteries. There was no problem running everything although the batteries just did not seem to stay charges.
When I bought the RV about a year and a half ago the seller said the batteries would be good for a few more years so I know they will be needing replacement (4-6 volt) I have maintained the batteries and when I got home, I checked a few cells and all were good.
Upon inspecting the batteries, I noticed the date stamp was from August of 2005. I guess I never really though about the date before. Is it possible the batteries are that old and still good but not keeping a good charge? When we Walmart parked a couple of times this summer I though the batteries were low in the morning only running the ref. overnight.
Do you think my batteries could be that old or did they not update the stickers to 2010 -2020 If that is the case my batteries could be from 2015.
Do you think this is old batteries needing replacement or is something else going on.
I appreciate the help as always
