Battery Storage between trips
I'm hoping that someone can tell me the best way to store batteries between trips. Do I take them out after every trip....or disconnect the batteries? 3-4 weeks at a time
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I am disagreeable to just disconnecting the batts. That will help, but battery will, WILL, lose charge just sitting, AND letting your battery lose charge counts as part of a cycle, which you only have a limited number of, and your battery will have a shorter life-span.
Letting batts lose charge then charging them is worse than just keeping them topped off.
Your batts, depending on things, can do 200-2,000 complete discharges before they are garbage, so though one guy might say it is perfectly fine, he also might not be aware how far into the death of his batteries he already is...
Choose your method of trickle charge, but choose something. Don't just let them sit and die.
With a trickle charge you do not necessarily need to do a complete disconnect from the camper, the trickle charge should be ample to maintain the charge and feed the parasitic loads.
Letting batts lose charge then charging them is worse than just keeping them topped off.
Your batts, depending on things, can do 200-2,000 complete discharges before they are garbage, so though one guy might say it is perfectly fine, he also might not be aware how far into the death of his batteries he already is...
Choose your method of trickle charge, but choose something. Don't just let them sit and die.
With a trickle charge you do not necessarily need to do a complete disconnect from the camper, the trickle charge should be ample to maintain the charge and feed the parasitic loads.
