Converter charging vehicle battery
Is there anyway to tell definitively if when hooked to shore power my converter charges not only the house batteries but the van battery? I haven't found any documentation to tell me it does. I'd like...
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rooney77 wrote:
I'm not looking to maintain the chassis battery. I want to be able to run the radio without fear of running down the chassis battery. Hence the need for the converter to charge the chassis battery as well as the house batteries. I probably should have stated that in the OP.
If all you're concerned about is radio usage, it shouldn't be too difficult of a job to rewire the radio to be powered from the house battery. The hard part would be running a new wire to it from the DC load center.
Actually, there's a reasonable chance it may already be powered by the house battery. Some makes and models do this, even when the radio is stuck in the dash alongside all sorts of things powered by the chassis electrical system, and I think others have some manner of dual power setup, presumably controlled by the state of the ignition switch.
