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All_Who_Wander_
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Feb 03, 2018

Charging motorhome batteries with a solar trickle charger

We have a 31' 2000 Fleetwood Class C motorhome. We put a cover over it to store it over the winter, but that has covered our built-in solar charger. As a result, all of the batteries are dying. We h...
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DrewE
Explorer III
Feb 04, 2018
Typically on the Ford E series chassis, the cigarette lighter socket is live all the time (with the key off), so there's no special wiring to do to use one of those little solar maintainers. This is pretty easy to check with any sort of a lighter accessory; if it works with the key off/out, the charger will also work.

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