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dboliek1112
Explorer
Oct 12, 2017

Leave Unit plugged into A/C to keep battery charged?

I apologize as I know the answer's here somewhere, I just couldn't find it. I have a 2000 Winnebago Chieftain 35U Motorhome. In order to keep batteries charged during the winter, should I keep A/C p...
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Kayteg1
Explorer II
Oct 13, 2017
My converter likes to go to 14.5V, what I know can be killing voltage when left for long time, so I let it charge the battery for a day and then disconnect for 6 months.
Good charger is worth lot of money as it can save and prolong battery life.
In my conversion I had 4-batteries bank for the house and 2 for the engine.
The house batteries were cheap golf-cart batteries from Walmart, but good charger made them lasting 12 years and I recall adding water 2 times in this period.

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