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Gary_Dietz
Explorer
Oct 04, 2015

Leaving batteries connected during long term camping

On another site I read a thread about unhooking the batteries when running on 120 volt for an extended time to prevent over heating. My question is how long is long term? Two nights? A week? A month? ...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Oct 05, 2015
Depends on your converter
Magnetek 6300 UPGRADE (one week, or less)

Progressive Dynamics 9180 with optional charge wizard (or their 9200 which haS it built in) 20 years. (Actually that's a joke. Forever is the correct answer.. though you may need to replace the batteries every 10 or so and water from time to time during that decade)

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