Battery Selector switches, best for tidy surface mount

Kayteg1 wrote:
I wonder why switch in the first place?
Battery separators like EATON are pretty affordable, come in 1-way or 2-way design, have connection for optional control light and emergency switch.
They make "set it and forget it" operation.
With switches there is margin for senior moment, even with young campers.

These seem to be primarily about charging isolation vs battery selection for usage.

On the KIT, I just wired both batteries together in parallel and hooked the +/- leads to opposite ends of the battery bundle to even their usage out, but I noticed even with that, the lead battery still took more wear than the trailing battery (I have two in the main house bank).

The new rig, I'm setting it up so that the batteries are only conjoined when the selector makes them so, allowing for me to cut between battery 1, battery 2 or both batteries at the same time for powering the camper when off shore power.

I could make use of one of these eatons though for controlling the charging process to the batteries coming from the trucks charge plug and 3-stage converter.

I wonder why switch in the first place?
Battery separators like EATON are pretty affordable, come in 1-way or 2-way design, have connection for optional control light and emergency switch.
They make "set it and forget it" operation.
With switches there is margin for senior moment, even with young campers.

Blue Sea Systems can be flush mounted.

Look at marine stores...they have the 1-Both-2-Off switches.

Perko and Blue Sea Systems are both quality marine grade products.

:):)

I have had good luck with the BLUE SEA Rotary Battery Switches. These are sealed to prevent internal arcing... Like the idea of the using good same length cables with ring terminals connections









Blue Sea switches and cables purchased from AMAZON...

Roy Ken

My Rockwood came with one of these types of battery cut off switches. It's on the tongue, under all the stuff up top, and you just have to reach up and turn the key to either ON or OFF..



The Rockwood came with a very nice dual 12v battery setup and I modified the storage compartment for it, but still like the disconnect switch on it.

Mitch