Battery Isolator For TT. Yes or No?
Sorry for a stupid question if this has been done to death, but I've been thinking that I should install a battery isolator to keep my truck battery and trailer battery separate. When I started doing...
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I installed one in my last truck. I prefer the way it is now, hard wired.
In the rare event that I don't want the truck and trailer batteries connected, I will unplug the truck.
More often I want them connected. When we dry camp I leave the truck connected until we go to bed. So we draw from it for several hours and then just rely on the TT batts. This gives us a little extra capacity. It's also nice to be able to drive around during the day then come back and let the trucks batteries give the TT's batts a little extra charge simply by equalizing.
So we've had it both ways and much prefer the hard wired method.
In the rare event that I don't want the truck and trailer batteries connected, I will unplug the truck.
More often I want them connected. When we dry camp I leave the truck connected until we go to bed. So we draw from it for several hours and then just rely on the TT batts. This gives us a little extra capacity. It's also nice to be able to drive around during the day then come back and let the trucks batteries give the TT's batts a little extra charge simply by equalizing.
So we've had it both ways and much prefer the hard wired method.
