Truck camper battery, or lack thereof
Hey, I've been lurking on this forum for a while and learned lots but do have a question. I picked up an old '95 truck camper and for the life of me cannot find a location where a battery would be st...
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Photomike wrote:
Many of the old campers did not have a house battery. They had a converter that you plugged into shore power that gave you 12v or you could pull from the truck enough to power a few lights.
Was not very efficient! Also was not designed for running lights for a long time or many at once.
My 92 NL was that way, found a spot to put a battery but you could not use the converter to charge it as all it did was make 12v and did not care about how charged up a battery was. I pulled the old 12v converter and put in a unit that would charge the battery properly. Worked great!!
Older converters would supply 12V AC for the lights and might have small DC circuit, like 3 amp for radio and battery charging.
