Trickle Charging Chassis battery
I am new to everything in our new (used Tiffin 33aa) coach, but am learning fast. I just learned the battery charger is only connected to house batteries, not chassis batteries. I have power connected...
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Grit dog wrote:
Battery solenoid?
I'm the one who hooked up a Trik-L-Start to the battery solenoid. The Class C I had at the time had a button on the dash that would connect the house batteries to the chassis battery as long as I held the button. That was in case the chassis battery was dead, I could start the engine from the house batteries. That button activated a solenoid. The solenoid had the house battery hooked to one big lug, and the chassis battery hooked to the other. As long as I held that button down, the batteries were connected. I put the Trik-L-Start from one big lug to the other. That way, as long as the RV was plugged in, the Trik-L-Start put some charging current to the chassis battery.
ON EDIT: Here is the schematic of the battery solenoid with the Trik-L-Start drawn in. Red line is hot wire in on the Trik-L-Start from the house batteries. Blue line is hot wire out to the chassis battery. Black line is ground. It literally went from one big lug to the other on that solenoid.
