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Bobbo
Explorer II
Jul 23, 2014

Fortunately, I did not have a pair of 6v batteries

Well, the fact I had a pair of 12v batteries in parallel rather than a pair of 6v batteries in series kept me from having a serious problem on the road. When I exercised the generator in June, all ...
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Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Jul 24, 2014
In most cases, an RV setup would either be 1 - 12V battery or 2 - 6V batteries. Or 2 - 12V batteries or 4 - 6V batteries. In both cases, if things went south the results would have been exactly the same. You either have 1 12V bank or 2 12V banks with only the number of containers at issue.
A bit of maintenance would have prevented the issue no matter the setup but, as I discovered, some of us are not good at that! I replaced all my batteries with AGM's so I just dust them off from time to time!

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