Keeping batteries in camper over winter?
There's a lot of advice out there that says the best way to maintain deep cycle batteries over the winter is to remove them from the camper and put them in warm storage. However, I'd like to use the ...
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Birddude wrote:I leave the PD connected all winter and have done fine. Before I had the PD, I used a temperature compensated BatteryMINDer 2012. That did fine too. I think the BatteryMINDer is the better option because of the temperature compensation. But I'm just guessing. And just leaving the PD connected is easier.
The manual for the Progressive Dynamics PD4000 power converter in the camper says it will automatically go into "Storage Mode" and decrease the voltage to 13.2 volts to maintain the battery. Does this mean I can just plug-in the camper power cord over the winter and the batteries will be OK? If not, could I purchase some kind of battery tender or maintainer that would work?
