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Frank_Mehaffey
Explorer
Sep 30, 2018

charging of 2 camper batteries with truck alternator?

I have a 2013 Livin Lite 10' TC with 2 deep cycle batteries installed. I'm confused and/or confounded by the posts in different forums about charging the camper batteries with the tow vehicle. The...
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deltabravo
Nomad
Oct 01, 2018
Frank Mehaffey wrote:


The vehicle is a 2012 F250 with the camper package. I have 14.13 v coming out of the 7 pin receiver at the bumper. My camper has a PD 4000 Power Control Center which has a micro processor to provide 3 different charging levels.


The converter has no effect on the batteries unless yu are plugged in to shorepower.

It needs AC power. The truck is DC.
They are two totally unrelated systems

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