Battery upgrade.. how in a 4winds with....

gotsmart wrote:

bukhrn wrote:

bigcitypopo wrote:
an outside battery tray, that will hold one group27...

move the batteries inside and use AGM?

it a 4winds Majestic 23... it is my mom's she got it from reserve america.. its been a great coach. the single skyline battery in it is on its way out. it only holds 12.0v after a full charge.


any recs would be great, or any upgrade ideas?

i'm just now learning the quirks of her class C,

I don't have any input on your question, but I have a question of my own, you say your Mom got this coach from Reserve America, are you talking about the Reservation site? I wasn't aware they sold RV's ?? :? :h

The 'Majestic' brand is owned by Cruise America. The OP misspoke.

Yes, Crusie America, sells their rigs at 5yrs.... they do a good job of re-fitting... its a solid coach. mind you i am picky. I found the right one.

I did not Misspoke... 4 winds builds them for cruise america....

bukhrn wrote:

bigcitypopo wrote:
an outside battery tray, that will hold one group27...

move the batteries inside and use AGM?

it a 4winds Majestic 23... it is my mom's she got it from reserve america.. its been a great coach. the single skyline battery in it is on its way out. it only holds 12.0v after a full charge.


any recs would be great, or any upgrade ideas?

i'm just now learning the quirks of her class C,

I don't have any input on your question, but I have a question of my own, you say your Mom got this coach from Reserve America, are you talking about the Reservation site? I wasn't aware they sold RV's ?? :? :h

The 'Majestic' brand is owned by Cruise America. The OP misspoke.

Hope it helps! Let us know what you end up doing...

outstanding!!! thank you Bruce!

BruceMc: Like your MH it is identical to mine except mine is a 1998 22rk and my battery box is farther back, but with the same lack of room for two 6 volt batteries. I was looking at some type of modification also. Thank you for the ideas. There is a picture in my profile, be on the Oregon coast this June, again.

Here was my solution to the single battery tray in our Four Winds. There should be room, but it is tight. As you can see in the original post, I made mine with a slide out arrangement so it makes it easy to check the levels, etc.

Good luck!

Looks like I didn't save my photos, but I had the same thing on my Trail Lite B+. I had a welder fabricate a second battery tray, hung from the frame with straps similar to the first one. AGMs would be perfect for that setup.

PS, I had to go back and have him add braces across the straps except for the side we left open to pass the battery through. Without braces it was too wobbly with the weight of the battery hanging in it. Eventually it would have cracked somewhere.

bigcitypopo wrote:
an outside battery tray, that will hold one group27...

move the batteries inside and use AGM?

it a 4winds Majestic 23... it is my mom's she got it from reserve america.. its been a great coach. the single skyline battery in it is on its way out. it only holds 12.0v after a full charge.


any recs would be great, or any upgrade ideas?

i'm just now learning the quirks of her class C,

I don't have any input on your question, but I have a question of my own, you say your Mom got this coach from Reserve America, are you talking about the Reservation site? I wasn't aware they sold RV's ?? :? :h

Tom_M wrote:
If you mount a battery on the frame under the coach, it would make it very difficult to check water levels on a flooded cell battery. This would be a good reason to consider AGM batteries. You can not mix flooded cell and AGM batteries, so this would mean that you would need to buy two AGM batteries.

This is what I did and it is a pain in the a$$ to check the batteries but it works!