Dry Camping Battery Suggestions
We recently exhausted our motor coach battery during a recent dry camping trip, and I wanted to ask about others experience with maintaining the battery during dry camping. We have a 2004 31' Dutchman...
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lc0338 wrote:marcsbigfoot20b27 wrote:
If you have 2 six volt batteries in series and one takes a dump, then both are worthless. If 1 of the 12 volt takes a dump, you just remove that 1 battery.
If you do some research it is not the "best practice" to mate up an old and new battery. The best approach is to start off with both batteries new because when you mate a new and old battery the new battery never achieves it's maximum possible life.
Yup. That's why I ditched the 12 volt house battery and two 6 volts in favor of 3 brand new 12 volt AGMs, one is the house batt and the other two are portable and hooked up in parallel when I get to a dry camping spot.
