CO and LP detector battery drain. Solution?
Hi guys, I just found out that the detectors in an RV use about 35-40 amps a day. On a "typical" 120 Ah system, charged to the normal 90%, and discharged to the normal 50%, the detectors will drain...
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Snowman9000 wrote:
There are detectors which use next to nothing. I've checked mine in my current and previous RVs with a multi-meter, and the usage was trivial. My current one draws 0.050a running, with a bit more at startup. So that is 1.2 amps in 24 hours.
If you want to disable it, just find the fuse that it's on, and pull it. Or put a switch in the circuit.
Thanks for the reply. So why are so many people claiming that these things use 35-40 amps a day?
Is there seriously that big of a variation in power consumption? 1.2-40 is a very large gap.
