no maintance battery

[bgant4]

I have a cedar creek with a standard battery. It has a batt. Charger no converter. Can I use a maintenance free batt?

[Sturgeon-Phish]

Some batteries identified as maintenance free leaves the buyer with the assumption they do not need to do anything with the battery, but the electrolyte levels need to be maintained by adding distilled water to avoid the risk low electrolyte.
Jim

[Furch5263]

As far as the maintenance free battery i have two optima battery in my Montana. Everything works great and had no problems. They are probably over kill for the price. Especially if u r not going self contained. Standard group 24 maintence free should be fine. Just purchase a decent brand name. Interstate, exide etc.
And as far as the other issue with the gas detecter chirping and landing gear not moving i would check and make sure the converter is charging first. Multimeter on battery approx. should read 13-14.2 volts. If its not check fuses and such and that your 110v cord is plugged in correctly and that the breaker has not tripped in the house or something stupid. 2 years to me is a little soon to be replacing what i aasume is a deep cycle battery. But its possible. Hope some of this help.
Furch5263

[laknox]

BusaGuy wrote:
I have had my trailer for 2years and it has mostly been plugged up but here recently I have heard the co2 monitor chirping. I went to move it the other day and the landing gears did not wanna work. Does that mean my battery is bad too?

If you have a regular battery, have you checked the electrolytes (water) lately? Normally, the landing gear runs directly off the battery, so this indicates a low or bad battery.

Lyle

[BusaGuy]

I have had my trailer for 2years and it has mostly been plugged up but here recently I have heard the co2 monitor chirping. I went to move it the other day and the landing gears did not wanna work. Does that mean my battery is bad too?

[avvidclif1]

bgant4 wrote:
I have a cedar creek with a standard battery. It has a batt. Charger no converter. Can I use a maintenance free batt?

You have your terminology confused, you have a converter, just not an inverter.
Converter: 120VAC to 12VDC Powers 12v appliances when plugged into shore power.
Inverter: 12VDC to 120VAC Powers 120v appliances when shore power not available, runs off of battery.

If the trailer is a late model the converter should have multistage charging and will do fine with an AGM.

AGM: Absorbed Glass Mat, a sealed battery that is maintenance free.

[Splashers3]

I am a CC owner as well - How do you not have a converter? I can't imagine a trailer without one....even hooked to shore power you would constantly draining your battery. The convert is supposed to convert the AC to DC.