Not there yet.
I will be entering my fourth season with the original 12 volt batteries in my Jayco and perusing this site I notice a bunch of you have proposed replacing the 12 volts with six volt batteries. If a p...
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NinerBikes wrote:
If you mainly pedestal camp with full hookups, a 12V battery with your existing charge controller would be in your best interests.
If you mainly dry camp, off the grid, a pair of 6V batteries would serve you better, along with proper recharging equipment to get them near fully charged, which will take a charger capable of delivering 14.8V in bulk charging mode,
Now we are getting into "part 2" - extending the battery life.
Remember, the OP doesn't know about series and parallel, so talking about charging modes would be a little too much.
But - yes, if the goal is getting more life out of it AND most of the time it's not on hookups - then he needs a proper/better converter and/or other charging equipment. If he camps with hookups mostly, then no need to change anything, and when his current battery dies, just get the cheapest 12V bank that there is, no matter if it's a single 12V or a pair of 6V.
