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noteven
Explorer III
Dec 22, 2016

Should batteries be disconnected when on shore power?

My rvs have Intellipower something or other converter chargers with fancy battery charging... Should I be disconnecting the house batteries when on shore power for extended periods? Or do the ba...
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Sam_Spade
Explorer
Dec 22, 2016
Pipeman wrote:
My batteries are shut off via a cut off switch, when I'm hooked up to shore power.


If you are offering this as advice to others......it is bad advice, in general. There is NO good reason to do that. And there are several reasons NOT to do that.

You have been lucky; that does not prove that it's good practice.
The system was not designed to be used that way.

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