Not enough batteries

dougrainer wrote:

Mile High wrote:

Winnipeg wrote:
Wow, lots of great advice and opinions. I did find out that Tiffin (and others?) used to add extra batteries with the residential fridge, but in the past few years they (and pretty much all manufacturers) just put in 2@12V. Same thing you can expect in a $15k travel trailer, so much for "high end".

Rather than quantity of batteries, they may have increased the battery size. I know some of the 5ers that started offering a residential fridge went from the initial 3 24 series 12-volt batteries to 2 31 series 12-volt batteries.

OK. Jayco and MOST Trailers do NOT come with batteries. They are installed when they are prepped for delivery. Doug

That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said! Trailers are typically shipped with the cheapest 24 series battery the factory can find so the brakes work, but they are DESIGNED for the quantity and size batteries they are engineered for based on equipment and the Dealer is supposed to install the appropriate batteries at Delivery so it is TRANSPARENT to the buyer, unless of course the Dealer is a jerk.

With that, before you went factomadness, - I was simply pointing out that counting batteries is not the only way to determine capacity because there are different size batteries with significant difference in AH ratings. I don't typically give a rats what Jayco does, but some of the higher end 5ers changed the SIZE of the batteries to accommodate residential fridges rather than the QUANTITY of batteries.