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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my BIRD talk was mainly meant to point out that the chassis bat reduces about 0.2V per week. i am not aware of any radio or other parasitic drains, so i assume it is due to the engine computer.
but if i plug RV in to shore power and use a battery minder/tender in a dashboard DC receptacle as was discussed, the following things concern me:
i could pretty easily leave rig plugged in w/house solenoid in USE and use battery tender/minder in a 'cigarette lighter' DC port.
1) is constant trickling to 13+V better for batts?
2) does the GM 2005 chevy 6.0L have a live DC receptacle as standard (not RV builder) feature
3} what worries me most is could the DC receptacle cause some other dashboard lights/gauges/switches to blow a fuse?
but if i plug RV in to shore power and use a battery minder/tender in a dashboard DC receptacle as was discussed, the following things concern me:
i could pretty easily leave rig plugged in w/house solenoid in USE and use battery tender/minder in a 'cigarette lighter' DC port.
1) is constant trickling to 13+V better for batts?
2) does the GM 2005 chevy 6.0L have a live DC receptacle as standard (not RV builder) feature
3} what worries me most is could the DC receptacle cause some other dashboard lights/gauges/switches to blow a fuse?
