Battery disconnect - can I still use my heat?
Hello fellow RV friends! I have a travel trailer and was wondering if I can disconnect my batteries for the winter so that they last longer but still have it plugged into shore power so I can use th...
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ScottyP5947 wrote:
Ok thanks, I'll take that advice too. Then I can judge what kind of converter I actually have.
Tell us just which converter you have and we can tell you whether the battery needs to be part of the circuit or not. As already mentioned any converter manufactured in at least the last 10 yrs can run your furnace just fine on it's own, it's only with much older converters which did require a battery to buffer the converter output that this would be a concern. These days that's not necessary.
