RV Battery charging
I'm going to do more searching, but thought I'd ask anyway. When we got our TT last fall it came with a new battery in it. Stored it at my parents place and was wanting to pull the battery, but forg...
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You just can't leave a battery connected for more than a couple of weeks. There are many things still on in the RV's that will discharge your battery over time.... When a DEEP CYCLE battery gets below the 50% charge state (12.0VDC) for any extended time it is usually toast.
You need to pull the negative battery cable if you are going to leave the battery installed unattended for any length of time...
Alot of folks add disconnect switches to do this... Others have added trickle charge from either low amps trickle chargers or small solar setup to over come the parasitic drains but this sometimes creates another problem where you may overcharge the battery and boil out its fluids. This also kills the battery.
Sometimes it is just best to start out with a charged battery and then disconnect the negative battery lead. It will last a long time doing this...
I disconnected my batteries around September last year and just checked my levels the other day of my disconnected batteries. They were reading 12.4VDC since being disconnected since September...
Roy Ken
You need to pull the negative battery cable if you are going to leave the battery installed unattended for any length of time...
Alot of folks add disconnect switches to do this... Others have added trickle charge from either low amps trickle chargers or small solar setup to over come the parasitic drains but this sometimes creates another problem where you may overcharge the battery and boil out its fluids. This also kills the battery.
Sometimes it is just best to start out with a charged battery and then disconnect the negative battery lead. It will last a long time doing this...
I disconnected my batteries around September last year and just checked my levels the other day of my disconnected batteries. They were reading 12.4VDC since being disconnected since September...
Roy Ken
