Battery charging from shore power?
Stock, do most trailers charge the batteries when they are hooked up to shore power? Or does that occur when the trailer is hooked up to the tow vehicle?
Forum Discussion
Dandy Dan wrote:
Bluebeard, I think the simple answer to this is YES to both. On shore power your converter/inverter will charge the battery and when hooked to the tow vehicle will also charge the battery if you have the hot line on the tow vehicle hooked. Some vehicles come with plug already wired and you might have to put a fuse in the fuse panel.
I think that is right in the great majority of cases; however . . .
Some, including the Heart Freedom 20 inverter in our Safari, can be programmed to charge whenever plugged in to shore power, OR to charge only when the inverter is turned “on” at the remote on the interior wall.
I have ours set at the latter setting. It has 100 watts of solar, plus BatteryMinders for both sets of batteries when stored and plugged in. I have no need for the inverter to be charging continuously while in storage.
Wayne
