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jayspi
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Oct 15, 2015

Question about battery charger and RV battery for a 5er

Hey everyone, if you've read some of my other questions then you know that I'm still learning about this whole electricity / power thing :). Please forgive the newb-ness of my questions. We have on...
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cmb
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Oct 15, 2015
jayspi wrote:
We have one 12v marine deep cycle battery in our 5th wheel and we just realized it's pretty much shot. We boondocked for the first time the other night and the battery was dead by the next morning, even though we only used it to run lights for a few minutes and to switch on the water pump when we needed it.

Hmmm, that seems excessive. Are you using incandescent lights? If you turn every battery operated device off, how much current is drawn from the battery? (Hint: It should be zero.)

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