Battery Maintainer
I used to leave my motorhome plugged in all the time and let the onboard charger keep the batteries charged. But I found myself having to replace the house batteries every couple of years as I think ...
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msmith1199 wrote:You are doing it right with the existing BT. A single battery can go bad. You need to separate and test individually.
I'm looking at the Battery Tender and I see they have one that has four separate charging units. I think the problem I have with my current one (which is a Battery Tender Model) is it's a single 12 volt charger and I'm hooking it to one battery, but both batteries are connected to each other. So I'm wondering if with their four batter unit, can I hook one to each of the chassis batteries and will it work even with leaving the batteries hooked to each other? I'm trying to avoid having to disconnect batteries. I take fairly good care of my motorhome and I go to it at least once a month and make sure it gets started and driven around. I don't want to be messing with connecting and disconnecting batteries. I just want to unplug it an go.
Not to mention I used a battery tender on my Harley Davidson and I got 9 years out of the original battery. So I want to use a battery tender on it.
The four battery charger is made to charge batteries that are separated from each other. Avoid this unless you want to remove cables to separate. Possibly get a dual charger with one on the chassis and one on the house. Still your MH may connect the batteries when it senses charging voltage depending on how yours is equipped. Regardless of this you can still have a battery go bad.
