Starcraft wiring
I have a 2008 Starcraft tent trailer. I left the camper plugged in overnight and my battery got fried. Is this typical? I also tried raising the top with the electric winch with the battery disconne...
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Streetmedic63 wrote:
The battery being fried as in overheated and boiled over. Brand new battery less than 2 months old. Installed a new battery and after three days camping on it and driving back home it did not have enough of a charge to raise the camper when I got home being disconnected from car. Plugged camper back into car and tried to raise the camper with battery disconnected and it would not raise.
So the first battery is the one that boiled over. That means your converter is shot. At home if you plug back in, the converter will wreck the new battery too.
Second battery is run down from camping and just needs recharging. Use some other charger for that until you get a new converter.
Looks like you need more batteries for a weekend camping trip to get by, or reduce your battery use while camping. With the weight limits etc, one way is to carry an extra battery in the tow vehicle and put it on the ground beside the trailer battery when you get there, paralleling them with a set of jumper cables.
One of those small solar sets won't really do much for you and are way over-priced usually, so it is better to put your money into more batteries if you can carry them along somehow.
