Removing battery charging wires
Have a 99 5th wheel, the battery charger when plugged into 120v is a really slow trickle charger, I am going to run my own battery charger instead but how do I know which wires to disconnect from my b...
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So you are all set. You can use the converter's breaker to shut it off as suggested above, and turn it back on when the portable gets going, or
you can disconnect the neg or pos wire(s) from the batt to disconnect if you will have a draw while charging, or
you can install a disconnect switch instead of playing with the wires.
Our trailer came with a disconnect switch on the pos line that isolated the converter from battery, but did not disconnect the batt from all loads ,like the LP alarm and stereo clock. (or the jacks and slide) So as Mex says, you want to arrange the switch to disconnect everything.
Note you must remember to connect the switch for going down the road so your emergency breakaway will get power from the trailer batt to operate the trailer brakes. Since memory can't be trusted, maybe leave that wire out of it. Also the Trimetric will reset everything if you disconnect that.
you can disconnect the neg or pos wire(s) from the batt to disconnect if you will have a draw while charging, or
you can install a disconnect switch instead of playing with the wires.
Our trailer came with a disconnect switch on the pos line that isolated the converter from battery, but did not disconnect the batt from all loads ,like the LP alarm and stereo clock. (or the jacks and slide) So as Mex says, you want to arrange the switch to disconnect everything.
Note you must remember to connect the switch for going down the road so your emergency breakaway will get power from the trailer batt to operate the trailer brakes. Since memory can't be trusted, maybe leave that wire out of it. Also the Trimetric will reset everything if you disconnect that.
