Best method for maintaining engine batteries.
What is the best way or best trickle charger, with pritection, to leave connected to the engine batteries and not boil all of the liquid out? The coach has 120 vac connected full time but this only ke...
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Dutch_12078 wrote:
And just to hopefully make the Trik-L-Start's function a bit clearer, it only passes a charging current to the chassis battery when the coach batteries are at a higher voltage than the chassis battery. Once the batteries equalize, the Trik-L-Start goes into a standby mode until it's needed again.
If you are right, that would mean the "maintaining" in Trick-L description is another lie.
Evidently manufacturer don't want the buyers to know what that thing does and I usually stay away from such suppliers.
I still think that attaching REAL maintainer to the batteries is way better way.
On side note, I bought my combiner assuming it will connect the banks only one way, but was surprised when I noticed that when my inverter/charger was maintaining the house batteries, the coach batteries got maintained as well.
I have high-tech unit in my coach and know the long term maintaining will not shorten the battery life -like trickle chargers do.
Coach golf-cart batteries lasted 12 years.
