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rexlion
May 14, 2020Explorer
While keeping the 5th wheel at a storage yard, and starting the storage time with a fully charged deep cycle battery, you really don't need much to keep the battery topped off. A 10 or 20 watt panel would be plenty. $35 or $40 plus the necessary connector should do it. And at that cost, if it sprouts legs and walks off you aren't out much. With my previous TT, which I parked in the back yard, I routinely left a 70W panel and Morningstar controller hooked to it, but that was overkill (I bought the panel to take boondocking, so I used what I had).
If you were only leaving it in storage for a month or so at a time in moderate temps, the disconnect switch (plus washing the top of the battery) might be enough to keep the battery from getting low enough to be damaged.
If you were only leaving it in storage for a month or so at a time in moderate temps, the disconnect switch (plus washing the top of the battery) might be enough to keep the battery from getting low enough to be damaged.
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