Shore Power Question

kidkasha wrote:
When hooked up to Shore Power at a campsite or anywhere else. Am I charging both house and engine batteries hen connected.

the house batteries for certain. the engine battery only if so equipped. if your engine battery is not being charged consider adding a Trik-L-Start.

On my Monaco coach, the shore connection powers the Inverter/charger, which takes care of my HOUSE batteries only.
If I need to charge my CHASSIS battery, I have to hook up a separate charger to do that.

On my Winnebago, the shore connection powers the Inverter/charger, which takes care of my HOUSE batteries only.

Yes, your Fleetwood coach is designed to charge all batteries when on shore power or generator. That has been a Fleetwood feature since the early 90s.


Richard
95 Bounder

We have a class C but it did not charge the chassis battery either. I installed a trik-l-Start system to charge it for me anytime the shore power was connected. Easy install and it works great.

Dave

I believe all Newmar products charge both battery systems. Am sure about "most" and think all do.

imgoin4it wrote:
I believe all Newmar products charge both battery systems. Am sure about "most" and think all do.

our's certainly does ..... thru the Intelic brain box and a couple large solenoids.

Arnold when on Shore Power take you Multi Meter and check your eng Btry.

To be sure just place a MULTIMETER across the battery terminals... A fully charged battery will read 12.6-7VDC. Then connect to Shore Power and you should see your trailer battery jump to 13.6VDC telling you it is being charged. Your truck start DC Voltage across it terminals will do the same thing if it is wired to charge your truck start battery...

Roy ken

RLS7201 wrote:
Yes, your Fleetwood coach is designed to charge all batteries when on shore power or generator. That has been a Fleetwood feature since the early 90s.


Richard
95 Bounder

Not always so. On my coach, shore power charges the coach batteries, but has to be putting out at least 13.3 volts for the coach batteries to let the charge go through to the chassis batteries. I found this out the hard way when the chassis batteries were dead and the coach would not start.