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mikestock
Explorer
Jan 27, 2017

Connecting the towed battery to the 12 v house system

I made a fused jumper to connect along side of the regular tail light system. I ran + and - to the starter battery to be sure I had a good constant ground. I ran the same type fused jumper from my hou...
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wolfe10
Explorer
Jan 28, 2017
mikestock wrote:
The point of the diode is to prevent the Honda from draining back to the house batteries in case there is a voltage differential in the wrong direction.


The point several of us have made is that connecting the house battery to the toad battery with a RELAY at the house battery end will do the same (isolate the two batteries) anytime the coach ignition is off WITHOUT THE VOLTAGE LOSS OF A DIODE.

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