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SJ-Chris
Explorer II
Sep 25, 2017

Battery not charging (from chassis or generator)

Hi All, new to RVing. Thanks in advance for you help! I've got a 2006 Four Winds Chateau 31p Class C with a Ford Superduty e450. RV has an Onan 4000 generator. I've got a 12V deep cycle house ba...
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jkwilson
Explorer III
Sep 26, 2017
Nothing you describe says your 12V battery was bad. It probably just needed charging, but having it paralleled with the bad 6V string prevented that from happening.

What kind of battery bank you need is a pretty individual thing. If you have a generator available for daily charging, you might be able to get by with less, but it depends on what you want to run and how much you want to run it between charges.

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