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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DSDP Don wrote:
"Kayteg1".....I just couldn't watch you beat this post to death any longer when you are soooo incorrect with your convoluted statements. The Trik-L-Start, Magnum and Zantrex units all do the same thing. These systems use the coaches battery charger (no matter what quality the charger is) to charge the chassis batteries ONLY when the coach batteries are being charged. So it's the coach battery charger using some of the charge dedicated to the coach batteries, to charge the chassis batteries.
They are great systems that are being used by 1000's of RVers whose coaches don't come with a BIRD system, which is the same thing. You're making silly statements about how the chassis batteries should be charged by a separate charger set up for non deep cycle batteries. What charger do you think the BIRD system is using when plugged into shore power to charge the chassis batteries??? Are all the coach manufacturers wrong too???
Can't say about all the systems you quoted, but battery combiner in normal "on" position does exactly what piece of wire connecting 2 battery banks do.
Don't know what is so great about it, when you can have the same job done by 50 cents worth of wire.
We want to assume that electronic circuit in Trik-L-Start will give the starting battery some protection in case of converter overcharging, but the selling brochure gives no details about it.
If you read this forum, you will find that lot of RV owners lost their batteries due to build-in converter overcharging.
Then again, if you you are happy with the risk, it is your money.
