Charging RV batteries with tow vechicle
Have any of you folks installed the necessary wiring and components so you can charge your RV batteries while you are driving? It looks like it would be easy to do, the most expensive part being the ...
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Well,well well. Isn't this interesting. After hearing all you folks saying it should be working, I found this tid-bit on a forum.
F-150 Charging TT battery while towing
This came up when a friend of mine realized that his F-150 was not charging the camper battery while he was traveling. Here's what we found out. Ford does not ship their trucks with the ability to charge a camper battery while towing. Why?? It's our guess that they are concerned with having a 12-V hot wire going the length of the vehicle and it's only being used by those pulling a camper. Here's what they do. All F-150's are shipped with a plastic bag shoved somewhere inside the truck, door or glove box storage. Inside the bag is a fuse, wiring harness with a plug and a relay. The relay goes into slot #9 in the main under hood fuse box just behind the radiator. The fuse, 30-amp goes into slot 21. The wiring harness is used if you don't have the factory installed brake controller.
Sure enough they were in the glove box, and I installed them in the fuse box. Leaving for Alaska April 28th. Thanks for the help!
F-150 Charging TT battery while towing
This came up when a friend of mine realized that his F-150 was not charging the camper battery while he was traveling. Here's what we found out. Ford does not ship their trucks with the ability to charge a camper battery while towing. Why?? It's our guess that they are concerned with having a 12-V hot wire going the length of the vehicle and it's only being used by those pulling a camper. Here's what they do. All F-150's are shipped with a plastic bag shoved somewhere inside the truck, door or glove box storage. Inside the bag is a fuse, wiring harness with a plug and a relay. The relay goes into slot #9 in the main under hood fuse box just behind the radiator. The fuse, 30-amp goes into slot 21. The wiring harness is used if you don't have the factory installed brake controller.
Sure enough they were in the glove box, and I installed them in the fuse box. Leaving for Alaska April 28th. Thanks for the help!
