Need a quick answer from the battery guru's
I thought I remember this being talked about, but knowing that the battery chargers in the RV/trailer tends not to deliver enough amps to bring the batteries up from a low charge (say like overnight u...
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KATOOM wrote:
As usual, everyone here is very helpful and a wealth of knowledge. But as I was expecting, everyone quickly went from simple to far beyond my scope of knowledge on the subject. :h It seems that I best be testing my convertor before I change anything. At the moment, my batteries are always up (as far as I know), so I can only guess that my convertor is doing its job while the trailer is plugged in.
In regards to distance between batteries and convertor, thats about 7-8 feet, or the width of the trailer.
Are you sure about the wire distance- RV builders like to use a country mile of light gauge wire on the typical trailer/Moho install. Reason it is this way is they install the wire before building the floor/deck and wall framing pulling through each assembly segment as the trailer is built without any thought except a fast build time.
My experience many times is 20' 8ga wire lengths to span a 7-8' linear distance due to under/up/over/down type routing.
You are correct the best thing to do is some resistance measurements before doing any work to evaluate the wiring in place plus monitor charging voltage as smkettner suggested.
