Is it a battery and what I think is for?
Howdy all, In preparing our motorhome for an impending trip, I went under the chassis on a creeper looking for potential troubles yesterday. That was when I noticed, for the first time, what appear...
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There's something that I don't understand about this discussion. :h
Is it that Class C motorhomes built on the Chevy 4500 cutaway van chassis don't have the usual coach battery storage areas included by the coach builder that hold one, two, or three or more batteries to power the coach when camping?
I doubt it, hence .... why the need for some kind of "extra" battery hung off the Chevy van's frame?
My Ford E450 cutaway van chassis based Class C just has the usual engine battery under the hood, and a battery compartment built into the coach structure that can hold two large batteries for the coach.
However, on the dash is a rocker switch that switches the power for the cab radio between either the engine battery or the coach batteries. This allows the cab radio to be used when camping for listening to radio stations or CD music - since the cab radio output can be routed to speakers in the coach.
The cab 12V outlets on the dash are always-hot and powered by the engine battery. The 12V outlets in the coach are of course always fed by the coach batteries.
BTW, since the the 12V outlets on the dash are directly connected (through fuses) to the engine battery, when on hookups or in storage one can plug a solar or other kind of battery charger into one of these dash 12V receptacles so as to keep the engine battery charged.
Is it that Class C motorhomes built on the Chevy 4500 cutaway van chassis don't have the usual coach battery storage areas included by the coach builder that hold one, two, or three or more batteries to power the coach when camping?
I doubt it, hence .... why the need for some kind of "extra" battery hung off the Chevy van's frame?
My Ford E450 cutaway van chassis based Class C just has the usual engine battery under the hood, and a battery compartment built into the coach structure that can hold two large batteries for the coach.
However, on the dash is a rocker switch that switches the power for the cab radio between either the engine battery or the coach batteries. This allows the cab radio to be used when camping for listening to radio stations or CD music - since the cab radio output can be routed to speakers in the coach.
The cab 12V outlets on the dash are always-hot and powered by the engine battery. The 12V outlets in the coach are of course always fed by the coach batteries.
BTW, since the the 12V outlets on the dash are directly connected (through fuses) to the engine battery, when on hookups or in storage one can plug a solar or other kind of battery charger into one of these dash 12V receptacles so as to keep the engine battery charged.
