Adding Batteries Separate From House Battery?
Hey RVers, My family and I have a 1990 Coachmen Leprechaun, and we are planning to go fulltime later this year. In the meantime, I am attempting to work out some of the major systems and hopefully ge...
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Hey folks,
Thanks for the quick replies.
Here is more info:
The battery bank will be for use while dry camping/boondocking.
Ultimately, I would be charging them with Solar, but probably not immediately.
Primary uses of electricity will be lights and charging devices. Occasional rare short use of microwave, maybe. But I still want inverter setup so my normal house outlets will function.
Removing the house battery seems like it would interfere with basically the entire wiring of the RV? All the lights and everything is connected to that battery? I guess I could test by removing the battery and plugging into shore power and seeing if everything works.
Yeah. I didn't think anything of it when I got it, but as soon as I started thinking about this puzzle, I was like...this is kind of strange. But sure enough, that's how it is.
Weight: I'm really only thinking we will need about 150lbs or less of batteries back there. I really only want to add about 100AH of usable 12v battery.
But essentially, you guys are telling me I won't burn up my converter with the setup I've proposed? Your issues are primarily with efficiency or simplicity rather than safety or component failure?
Thanks for the quick replies.
Here is more info:
The battery bank will be for use while dry camping/boondocking.
Ultimately, I would be charging them with Solar, but probably not immediately.
Primary uses of electricity will be lights and charging devices. Occasional rare short use of microwave, maybe. But I still want inverter setup so my normal house outlets will function.
Since your converter is in the rear, dedicate a storage compartment close by to batteries, install and wire them directly to the converter, remove the house battery from under hood. If you want 120VAC for something specific, run a dedicated circuit from inverter to the desired location.
Removing the house battery seems like it would interfere with basically the entire wiring of the RV? All the lights and everything is connected to that battery? I guess I could test by removing the battery and plugging into shore power and seeing if everything works.
And I gotta ask this:
Are you SURE that your house battery is under the hood of the "truck" ?? I don't have a lot of experience but that doesn't sound right to me.
Yeah. I didn't think anything of it when I got it, but as soon as I started thinking about this puzzle, I was like...this is kind of strange. But sure enough, that's how it is.
Weight: I'm really only thinking we will need about 150lbs or less of batteries back there. I really only want to add about 100AH of usable 12v battery.
But essentially, you guys are telling me I won't burn up my converter with the setup I've proposed? Your issues are primarily with efficiency or simplicity rather than safety or component failure?
