Battery Maintenance
We recently bought our first coach and need advice on maintaining the batteries.
Before I ask my questions, here is some history on the coach. When we fist bought it, the chassis batteries weren't being charged via the inverter. The previous owner recently had installed all new batteries and a new Xantrex freedom sw 2012 inverter/converter. He installed a battery fill system on the 4 6 volt batteries via a set of hoses and hand pump. He told me that he had to fill the batteries once a month with distilled water. After looking it over I determined that the Magnum smart battery combiner was installed incorrectly, after correcting it, the inverter is now charging both chassis and house batteries. So now that everything appears to be in working order I need to understand the best way to maintain the batteries when I'm not using the coach.
Is the Xantrex a good battery maintainer or should I be looking into adding a separate battery maintainer? With the inverter in charge mode, coach plugged, batteries are at 13.57 volts.
How often should I need to added distilled water to those batteries?
The rig is a: 2001 Beaver Patriot Thunder with 2 group 31 chassis batteries and 4 6 volt house batteries.
Any tips, advice will be appreciated. Sorry for the long post, thought the info would be relative.
Thank you, Kevin
Before I ask my questions, here is some history on the coach. When we fist bought it, the chassis batteries weren't being charged via the inverter. The previous owner recently had installed all new batteries and a new Xantrex freedom sw 2012 inverter/converter. He installed a battery fill system on the 4 6 volt batteries via a set of hoses and hand pump. He told me that he had to fill the batteries once a month with distilled water. After looking it over I determined that the Magnum smart battery combiner was installed incorrectly, after correcting it, the inverter is now charging both chassis and house batteries. So now that everything appears to be in working order I need to understand the best way to maintain the batteries when I'm not using the coach.
Is the Xantrex a good battery maintainer or should I be looking into adding a separate battery maintainer? With the inverter in charge mode, coach plugged, batteries are at 13.57 volts.
How often should I need to added distilled water to those batteries?
The rig is a: 2001 Beaver Patriot Thunder with 2 group 31 chassis batteries and 4 6 volt house batteries.
Any tips, advice will be appreciated. Sorry for the long post, thought the info would be relative.
Thank you, Kevin
