Winter battery maintenance
This is my first winter with our 96 Winnebago 37 RW. I have to store it in a storage lot and need to know what to do with the batteries for the winter. I believe I have one coach battery and 2 house ...
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The manual for my Winnebago says the converter is a 3-stage charger, but I don't have a 30A outlet to plug into. I think it would be fine plugged into a 15A extension cord, with nothing connected but the batteries I don't think it would draw much to keep them charged. But then I'd need a second cord to run a maintainer on the chassis battery.
So I ran one cord into the battery compartment and connected one tender to the house batteries and one to the chassis battery. Now I can leave both shut off and not worry about it. On my 5er I pulled the batteries and connected them to the tender in the garage, but that's not practical with the MH.
I have the extension cord plugged into a Kill-A-Watt and will see how much it actually draws over the next month or so. Maybe not the best approach but it works for me.
So I ran one cord into the battery compartment and connected one tender to the house batteries and one to the chassis battery. Now I can leave both shut off and not worry about it. On my 5er I pulled the batteries and connected them to the tender in the garage, but that's not practical with the MH.
I have the extension cord plugged into a Kill-A-Watt and will see how much it actually draws over the next month or so. Maybe not the best approach but it works for me.
