Battery charging with Champion 20001 question
I am brand new to this and am learning as I go (with the help of you fine folks :) ). I recently purchased a chanmpion inverter generator to charge my rv battery during the day. I plugged it in an...
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Shwthomas1975 wrote:
Also, do you guys and gals turn off the breakers when not in use? Only reason I ask, is I mustve left something on and the battery is now dead. If I turned them off religously that wouldn't have happened. I still have to do some research on what the breakers go to. One says micro, but I dont have a microwave. And thats the one that caused the genny to overload when started on economy.
Then there are 2 breakers on one for the main.
I'll get it all someday lol
On my first camper I had to manually disconnect the negative lead from the battery, because there are parasitic draws on your battery like LP detectors, and built in clock radios etc. My new camper has a Battery disconnect switch right in my master control panel. I emphasize this because, I believe your breakers are for your AC needs and there are fuses for the 12 volts items. So unless you pull fuses too you will still have the draws I mentioned which will drain your battery.
As far as draining a deep cycle battery...from what I've read is that the farther down you drain it the shorter the battery's life will be. I can't point you to exactly where I read that, hopefully someone will reaffirm that info or correct me if I'm wrong.
