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MR_MAC
Explorer
Jan 09, 2015

Charging house batt. with charger - time

Staying at Sons house in NC about a wk., too far from ele. plugin, any one how long it would take to charge batt. with a charger plugged in to MH with gen. running. May need to use furnace at night.. Also would charging cause any damage to converter as both would be sending current to batt. and is this a bad thing to do. Or do I have to disconnect batt to charge with a charger?

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    BFL13
    Explorer II
    Jan 09, 2015
    You can run the converter and battery charger at the same time on the one battery no damage will occur. They may or may not add their amps for a faster charge. If the portable charger won't start at all with the converter on, then run the portable first , then turn on the converter.

    You can haul out one or more batteries and take them within reach of the stick house 120v and use the portable charger on it/them and put it/them back in the RV. You can take turns with the batts doing that so they all get done. (If you don't want to run the gen and charge via converter) Or you can do some each way.

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