Six volt battery question.
I have just bought a 1994 Pinnacle 30 foot Motorhome and it has a toggle switch to enable my six volt batteries to be on, or off.....my question is should I leave it on, or off if the Motorhome is not...
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Ava wrote:
I turn my house batteries off more than on. Once plugged in to shore power I turn them off until the night before leaving. They charge when driving my RV. At home I only plug my rig in to charge them occasionally unless we are planning a trip, then a couple days ahead.
I rarely need to add water to mine using them this way.
Why Turn 'em off less you have a pos converter like the Magnetek 6300 battery boiler?
Why leave 'em on? Well earlier this trip (last week in fact) I was sitting here and suddenly the A/C quit.. The TV kept working (inverter) The Computers (Laptops internal battery hooked to my cell phone's hot spot) My ham radio (one hand held talking via radio to a small computer battery operated and another directly off the battery talking to remote radios) Lights stayed on. Has I not been running A/C I'd not have noticed the park wide power failure.. Or the one that followed it. about 30 minutes later.
That's why you leave 'em on
NOTE: not by any means the first time it's happened.
Was sitting in the CG one day when Digger o'Grady (not his real name) sliced a primary power cable (Thousands of volts) with his backhoe adn .. instant no 120 vac save for the battery operated inverter circuits.
When a hurrican passed near
When a driver was not paying attention and missed the curve but scored a bullseye on the power pole (BANG NO POWER) I only noticed the AC blowers stopped blowing.
And still more power fails.
