Clicking sound with trickle charger

Sam Spade wrote:

jjson775 wrote:
Even driving the RV every 3 weeks or so doesn't always prevent a discharged battery which is the reason I went to a trickle charger in the first place.

Yes it WILL.

IF you drive long enough to get the battery charged up
AND
You disconnect it when it is parked.

Any battery that shows significant loss of charge over 3 weeks when it is not connected to anything IS DEFECTIVE and should be replaced.

Did you notice the important information I tried to give you about "trickle" chargers ??

He didn't say he was disconnecting the starting battery in the original post, but that is what Pleasure-way said to do because, as speculated, the separator is kicking in and out. He also said he knows driving every few weeks isn't always enough, which is absolutely true, as it can take hours to refill a cold lead acid battery so you slowly go downhill on charge.

"Trickle" chargers may or may not be a problem IMO, as it all depends on their voltage setpoint. There is no required standard. 13.5 volts or less and it would be the same as most mulitsteps on float.

I go back to one of the earlier suggestions. We now know he has a separator, so the starting battery and coach batteries will be on charge when on shore power. Just plug into the main power to the van instead of the plugging in the trickle charger. That way all the batteries will be charged by the (we assume) multistep shore charger. You will always start, and not have to charge the coach batteries with the genny all the time, which is a very slow way to do it and won't get them full unless you run it for many hours.