Electrical issue
Checked on the fifth wheel in storage today. Batteries were dead. They are 5 years old so I knew I was on borrowed time with them anyway. Towed to my local battery store. Have two 6 volt batteries tha...
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Rygar wrote:
Checked on the fifth wheel in storage today. Batteries were dead.
Your post reads like you don't disconnect your batteries whenever you're not using the rig ... if so, of course your batteries will be dead. And "dead" isn't 2 volts as you normally don't want to draw down any deep cycle battery more than ~ 50% which for a 6 volt battery is ~ 6 volts.
Now that you have new batteries either disconnect them physically when not in use or better still install a battery disconnect switch so parasitic draw in your rig doesn't kill these ones as well.
