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Naio
Explorer II
Jul 02, 2015

Is it bad to drive with trickle charger on chassis battery?

Y'all Tinkerers are going to be disgusted by this. But I have finite energy this summer, and too many demands on it. One result: I have a milliamp drain in my chassis system which I have put some...
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time2roll
Nomad
Jul 03, 2015
Naio wrote:
Will you elaborate? Do you mean you don't have a relay between house and chassis, and towing pulls down the chassis battery?

Both of those seem unlikely, but I can't think what else you would be talking about... ??
When I am running down the road there is an open 40 amp connection between my solar powered trailer and the truck.
No issues.

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