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BobsYourUncle
Nomad
Aug 22, 2019

Batteries drained to dead, what is nominal drain on truck?

18 days into a 3 week holiday, things were mostly well until this morning, sigh, here we go again.... Parked the truck at the campsite day before yesterday afternoon. Didn't run it yesterday. Went ...
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BFL13
Explorer II
Aug 22, 2019
Did you power the converter from shore power or from a generator? reason to ask is:

If you are off grid, and you leave the 7-pin connected while parked engine off, your Chev will be "live" with the engine battery in parallel with the trailer batteries. So that could be good or bad for the truck battery depending on whether the trailer batteries are being recharged or run down.

Generally with a Chev, disconnect the 7-pin when you are parked for very long.

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