Battery - Learned something new
The battery in our TT was 5 years old and I noticed the last couple of trips, the tongue jack seemed to be struggling a bit. I had a trip coming up and for weeks kept procrastinating on getting a new...
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colliehauler wrote:MetalGator wrote:I would make sure your converter is charging. Converter should run the 12 volt side.korbe wrote:
When we are on shore power, I can disconnect the batteries and all my 12-volt things work just fine through the converter.
That is the way I expected things to work, but the fridge definitely didn't work with the dead battery. Different trailers must be wired differently.
Converter supplies 12V DC System when connected to 120V AC power source.
DC output from a converter is 13.2V DC MINIMUM.
BUT converter can not supply sufficient DC Voltage AND charge a 'shorted/dead' battery
When you disconnected battery cables......converter should have been able to THEN supply the trailer DC System.
New battery allowed converter to not be overloaded.
