running vehicle with dead engine battery?
I have a dead engine battery house batteries are good I can start the rv using a button on the dash that will use the house batteries. will I do any damage to the alternator, etc by driving with...
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DrewE wrote:You'll always get the nannies saying you'll shoot your eye out with that BB gun. Fact is, batteries very, very rarely fail catastrophically. So if it got him there it's fine to get him back home once he gets the engine started.
On many RVs (with relay-based isolators), the house battery remains connected to the system while the engine is running. In such a design I would not hesitate to disconnect the chassis battery.
