2001 Dolphin chasis battery.......dead???
My coach has been sitting for a year, I never tried to start it. 12 volt battery was dead. I hooked up my Sears battery charger, for about 5 hours. The coach started right up after that. Does my c...
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BFL13 wrote:
I have a wire thing I made up using two cig plugs one at each end. When on shore power for a long time, I stick one in the dash cig lighter socket and the other in the 12v socket that came with the television antenna panel overhead, which is on house battery.
I went a little further to prevent over-charging the chassis battery.
I put a regular 6 amp automatic battery charger in the compartment with the A/V equipment hard-wired to the chassis battery. The charger is plugged into an old school mechanical lamp timer set to come on for only 2 hours a day.
Whenever it's connected to shore power the chassis gets an up to 6 amp charge for a couple of hours a day.
If it's parked for long in the winter I correct the time of day on the timer so that the charge cycle occurs in the wee hours of the morning when the temps are the coldest.
