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tragusa3
Explorer
Mar 19, 2016

How much of battery weight transfers to tongue?

As the topic says, with batteries mounted at the front of a travel trailer, how much of the weight is sitting on tongue weight? I ask because I need new batteries and am currently using 2 6v golf c...
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BarneyS
Explorer III
Mar 21, 2016
RBPerry wrote:
Wouldn't it depend on the length of the trailer? It seems to me the further back the trailer axles are the higher the percentage of weight being transferred to the tongue.

Yep, you are correct.
Barney

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