Need Battery Help ASAP
We are camping this week and I'm having trouble with the batteries on the trailer. I have 2 12V batteries in parallel. Both batteries are 4-6 years old and I have not had any issues with them to thi...
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It is probably the batteries.
You said that you haven't had any trouble with them yet. How often to do you check the water levels in the cells? I bought my trailer from a guy who kept it plugged in almost all of the time. The batteries were only 3 years old but 3 of the cells were completely dry.
And, if you let a battery get down to 10v it is almost impossible to bring it back to a full charge and the life of this battery had diminished greatly. Hooking up a weak battery to a good battery will only hurt the good one. It is one of those weak link arguments.
I would check the electric brake, I would turn off the defroster mechanism on your dometic fridge and then get two good deep cycle batteries. Don't get marine batteries but genuine deep cycle batteries.
You said that you haven't had any trouble with them yet. How often to do you check the water levels in the cells? I bought my trailer from a guy who kept it plugged in almost all of the time. The batteries were only 3 years old but 3 of the cells were completely dry.
And, if you let a battery get down to 10v it is almost impossible to bring it back to a full charge and the life of this battery had diminished greatly. Hooking up a weak battery to a good battery will only hurt the good one. It is one of those weak link arguments.
I would check the electric brake, I would turn off the defroster mechanism on your dometic fridge and then get two good deep cycle batteries. Don't get marine batteries but genuine deep cycle batteries.
