Keeping batteries charged while not in use?
We just got our 2014 Itasca Navion, and it has a chassis battery, and two coach batteries. I was reading the owners manual, and it indicated not to leave the shoreline plugged in while in storage, ...
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marc515 wrote:
What have you guys found to be the best solution to keeping your batteries charged?
I changed the batteries in my RV to a type that are rated to be stored with a constant charge voltage on them that is the same as what the stock converter that came on the RV is normally putting out. So during storage I leave the RV plugged in all the time and the coach batteries hooked up to the stock converter most of the time.
I then plug a BatterMinder into a 120 volt AC outlet in the RV and plug it's 12 volt male cigarette lighter output plug into a 12 volt receptacle on the cab's dash (which is always hot connected to the starting battery as designed by Ford). This BatteryMinder then is keeping the chassis battery charged all the time, too.
This system works like a champ for all three batteries (two coach and one starting).
