Kayteg1 wrote:
NRALIFR wrote:
The bottom line is that the auxiliary or house batteries need to be integrated into and treated as part of the whole system. They need to be maintained properly, and for the most part they are not,
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This is blank statement, who is not applying to B2B chargers.
35 years of my RVing in more than a dozen different RV proves those chargers are not needed.
Obviously when somebody will change proven technology and install new gizmos- that is different story.
Some solar freaks make 48V systems in their RV. Go figure.
I believed the exact same thing until I bought my current truck. All of a sudden, even though I did the same thing to the charging system that I had done on two previous trucks, using higher gauge wires than I used on either of the two, it couldn’t keep up with the draw from running the fridge in AC mode while driving, and we were arriving at our destination with a severely depleted battery. That just won’t work for us.
So, what changed? That “proven technology” had changed. I didn’t ask them to do it, they just changed it and I have to deal with it. I would have preferred that things stayed the way they were, and not buy a DC-DC charger. Redarc isn’t an inexpensive brand, but there weren’t a whole lot of options available when I installed mine. There are brands now that are about half the price, but one thing I can say about Redarc is it’s a GOOD brand. It does what it’s supposed to do, it doesn’t overheat, and it can do it all day long if it has to.
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