Forum Discussion

phishheadmi's avatar
phishheadmi
Explorer II
May 20, 2014

Battery questions

I have a couple quick questions about my battery use.

We have a five night camping trip coming up and won't have shore power available. I have two group 24 batteries...one is about a year old, one is about two years old. The newer one seems to charge and hold to 12.6V the older gets to about 12.45. Would I be better off wiring them together in parallel, or using them individually, one at a time? I'd like to wire them together, but seem to recall reading somewhere that it only worked well if both batteries were identical.


Next, I have a Honda eu1000i generator that I don't want to run much, but can use to charge the batteries if necessary. I do have the optional charging cable for the gene, is it more efficient to use that, or plug in the shore power and charge through the tt's electrical system?

12 Replies