The procedure replacing my rV BATTERY
We have had tent campers, travel trailers, 5th wheelers and now a destination trailer and i never had to replace the battery. But the time is coming real soon. This may be a stupid question but will...
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If you have solar, some solar controllers must have a battery connected whenever the solar panels are connected. With one of those you should disconnect the solar panels from the controller before removing the battery.
Otherwise, turning the battery disconnect switch off (assuming you have one) and possibly turning the AC power off (depends on what converter you have) are all that are electrically necessary. Taking pictures of the battery setup before you disconnect the wires (and marking them) so as to know what ones go where when you get the new battery is often a very good idea. If any of the terminals are questionable or need cleaning it's a great opportunity to take care of that.
If you remove the battery and have the shore power turned off, you just have a trailer with no power anywhere for anything. It's kind of like your house when there's a power outage. You should avoid towing it down the road without a battery as the breakaway brake system won't be operational; in many states, in fact, it would be illegal to do so. That's obviously not a concern for just having it sit in one place.
Otherwise, turning the battery disconnect switch off (assuming you have one) and possibly turning the AC power off (depends on what converter you have) are all that are electrically necessary. Taking pictures of the battery setup before you disconnect the wires (and marking them) so as to know what ones go where when you get the new battery is often a very good idea. If any of the terminals are questionable or need cleaning it's a great opportunity to take care of that.
If you remove the battery and have the shore power turned off, you just have a trailer with no power anywhere for anything. It's kind of like your house when there's a power outage. You should avoid towing it down the road without a battery as the breakaway brake system won't be operational; in many states, in fact, it would be illegal to do so. That's obviously not a concern for just having it sit in one place.
