Advice on new RV battery maintenance.
Here is the equipment in the stairs of our new RV. The batteries are really corroded but they seem to be holding a charge. I’’d like some expert advice. Should I charge with the negative and positiv...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
I would go one further, replace the batteries, they look like they have been there a long, long time and the way the brackets are corroded, those batteries have been boiling for long periods of time.
I agree, someone cooked the c rap out of those batteries. The camper is a 2018 and the batteries aren't original, unless camper mfgs shop at Napa, so they can't be that old.
And to the OP, clean that ____ up! I can taste the batteries must looking at that picture!
And make sure you're charging them correctly. Those cables look like a set of jumper cables. Must be a big charger!
Don't need to "test" anything. Does the solenoid and xfer switch work or not, is about the only test.
