does converter charge truck batteries
I have a supernova 6372. Does my converter charge my truck batteries when I am plugged in? My coach batteries stay charged but my truck batteries go dead and I have to recharge with a charger. Any in...
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A problem I see with how the BIRD works is this: What if your coach batteries are a different type than your chassis battery?
My coach batteries are a special AGM type ("wheel chair" batteries) that are both charged and floated just fine by the stock single voltage Parallax converter that came in the RV, whether on the road or in storage.
My chassis battery is a starting battery using classic wet liquid acid technology, so I keep a small multi-stage charger ... that in addition has a unique desulphating stage ... connected to the chassis battery 24/7 whenever the RV is in storage. This is very easy to do since I keep the RV plugged in all the time during storage. I just plug the small multi-stage charger into one of the RV's 120 volt AC outlets and then plug the long output cable that came with it into one of the cab's 12 volt receptacles. This then keeps the chassis battery well maintained because the cab's 12 volt receptacles are still "hot" when the ignition if off ... hence I'm in effect back-feeding the small charger's output into the engine battery to maintain it. The engine battery is Ford's best so it has a 100 month warranty and I hope to get 100 months of life, or longer, out of it.
I could not do this with a BIRD device (... as I understand how they operate).
My coach batteries are a special AGM type ("wheel chair" batteries) that are both charged and floated just fine by the stock single voltage Parallax converter that came in the RV, whether on the road or in storage.
My chassis battery is a starting battery using classic wet liquid acid technology, so I keep a small multi-stage charger ... that in addition has a unique desulphating stage ... connected to the chassis battery 24/7 whenever the RV is in storage. This is very easy to do since I keep the RV plugged in all the time during storage. I just plug the small multi-stage charger into one of the RV's 120 volt AC outlets and then plug the long output cable that came with it into one of the cab's 12 volt receptacles. This then keeps the chassis battery well maintained because the cab's 12 volt receptacles are still "hot" when the ignition if off ... hence I'm in effect back-feeding the small charger's output into the engine battery to maintain it. The engine battery is Ford's best so it has a 100 month warranty and I hope to get 100 months of life, or longer, out of it.
I could not do this with a BIRD device (... as I understand how they operate).
