Towed my Equinox but drained my battery.
Well, got my towing package installed today at CW. Using an Even Brake system in the Equinox as the proportional braking mechanism. On the way home, I got a "low battery" signal on my monitor in the...
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willald wrote:
Yep, sounds like you have a vehicle that will draw the battery down, if a fuse or two isn't pulled to prevent such.
I personally am not a fan of pulling fuses. That just adds one more thing to do (read: forget to do) when hitching up and unhitching. I like to keep the hitch up and unhitching process as quick and simple as possible.
IMO, a much better solution if you can do it, is to run a charge line from the MH to your toad's battery. That way you never have to worry about running down a battery again, no matter what may be drawing on the toad's battery when towing. There is frequently an unused wire in your 'umbilical cord' going to the toad that you can use for a charge line, so you won't have anything extra to hook up during hitching and unhitching.
Obviously its up to you, but I would look into wiring a charge line instead of pulling a fuse on your Equinox. I think you'll be much happier with that approach in the long run.
An even simpler solution is to put a switch in the circuit that has the fuse. That's what we did with our Malibu. Since the switched circuit in our case contains the transmission shift indicator LED it's easy to know whether it is on or off.
