Battery not charging or holding charge
I have a travel trailer. The battery is not holding the charge and keeps dropping.while camping. I am hooked up to 30 amp. I purchased a new deep cycle battery and am having the same problem. What cha...
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I see you have an older Travel Trailer and I suspect it is using a single mode converter/charger unit that only produces 13.6VDC when charging your battery. It also takes a good 12 hours of charge time to fully charge a deep cycle battery when only using 13.6VDC as source. The 13.6VDC is also known to boil off your battery fluids over a pretty short period time which is probably killing your battery. Your float standy DC VOltage needs to be no more than 13.2VDC t keep from boiling out the battery fluids (so says Progressive Dynamics)
Batteries are not not cheap - Invest in a $10-$20 Multimeter (AMAZON-LOWES-Auto Part STORES) and read your battery voltages on a regular basis. Harbor Freight use to give you a FREE multimeter if you purchased things from them...
You really need to be checking the fluid levels of your battery on a regular basis if this is what you have.
I replaced my WFCO Converter/charger unit in my 2004 and 2008 trailers right after I purchased them. Went with the Progressive Dynamics smart mode models that uses 14.4VDC-13.6VDC-13.2VDC to maintain the batteries...
Roy Ken
Batteries are not not cheap - Invest in a $10-$20 Multimeter (AMAZON-LOWES-Auto Part STORES) and read your battery voltages on a regular basis. Harbor Freight use to give you a FREE multimeter if you purchased things from them...
You really need to be checking the fluid levels of your battery on a regular basis if this is what you have.
I replaced my WFCO Converter/charger unit in my 2004 and 2008 trailers right after I purchased them. Went with the Progressive Dynamics smart mode models that uses 14.4VDC-13.6VDC-13.2VDC to maintain the batteries...
Roy Ken
