Battery maintenance
Our little over night trip to spend the holidays with the G/Kids we found that our battery pack was dead (or nearly) in just 1 day, the coach stays plugged in to the 50 amp connection at the house, an...
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Tom/Barb wrote:I think you may be over charging the batteries, are you sure your 4 Trojans are 600 ah? Mine are 220 each which is 440 ah. Have you checked the water level in the batteries?wolfe10 wrote:
Tom,
Just verify that the inverter/charger is properly programmed. That includes battery technology, battery size (in amp-hrs) and ambient temperature.
Now that you have done the equalization charge, use a hydrometer and check the cells for variance.
Done, the inverter charger is set by the book, for wet cell size of 600 AH, and voltage was checked by both methods.
We start tomorrow by disconnecting the coach and see how long it requires for normal usage to draw the pack down. then a timed charge to see if the whole pack is delivering
