Engine battery and house battery questions.
My coach sat for about 8 weeks. Went to move it and the engine battery was dead, drained, kaput. House batteries were fine, they were replaced recently with new deep cells. Anyway I used the bypas...
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klutchdust wrote:
Thanks for those pics. I have Black and Decker battery minders and I just ventured out into the rain, yes beautiful rain, and saw that the alligator clips can be unplugged. Into my garage and I found the adapter for the accessory port. At the time of purchase I must have wondered what the heck and put them in the power cord drawer. Wife even wondered why the big smile on my face, I told her once again the forum made things easier...
Paul ... glad to be of some help. It sounds like you still had your BatteryMINDer's 12V receptacle plug - what luck.
I've used this trick for years on our Class C. The last Ford chassis battery lasted at least 6 years by taking care of it via our BatteryMINDer feeding a dash receptacle. Even when I replaced the Ford battery recently, I just did it "just in case" because it seemed to still be fine. I trust the Ford OEM battery quality, but the model I use in our E450 Class C is not what came in it. Shortly after buying our RV, I upgraded to the Ford OEM battery recommended for their diesel engines so as to have chassis battery over-kill.
P.S. I'm not so sure about the "beautiful rain" though. We have a large oak tree growing up out of a circular opening on our front deck. A couple of it's large limbs broke off during the rain storm last night and they landed right on our home's roof. Luckily, they didn't seem - as far as I can tell yet - to have penetrated the roof enough to make it leak, but it'll be a major tree job to have it cleaned up. We'll have another of it's big limbs that hangs over our Class C removed at the same time!
