Can I use main breaker as battery disconnect?
I am getting ready to purchase and install a battery disconnect. I am very familiar with residential wiring and electricity but I have not familiarized myself with rv wiring. Could I just use the ...
Forum Discussion
RoyB wrote:
If you are going to work on the 12VDC cabling turn off the converter/charger unit and pull the battery terminals.
After thinking about it, my post was a bit of a brain fart. Pulling the converter fuses stops the 12V from the converter to the fuse panel, but not from the batteries to the fuse panel. As you said, you'd have to disconnect the batteries AND the converter (unplug from shore power) in order to kill the 12V voltage completely.
Mine has circuit breakers (the auto-resetting type, not what you would envision as a 120V breaker) where the 12V comes into the rig from the batteries. I had thought about putting a disconnect switch there to prevent parasitic battery drain while I'm parked but never got around to it.
