Battery Maintenance
We recently bought our first coach and need advice on maintaining the batteries. Before I ask my questions, here is some history on the coach. When we fist bought it, the chassis batteries weren't...
Forum Discussion
wolfe10 wrote:Beaver Thunder wrote:
My understanding (math), the 2 20Ah 6V in series would make a 12V, 40Ah bank and then when connected in parallel to the same would make a 12V 80Ah bank. The chassis batteries, which have approximately a 160Ah, so do I set the inverter charger battery capacity at 80ah or the combine total of 240AH.
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First, I would be surprised if any 6 VDC batteries were only 20 Ah. Check them again.
But when wired in series 2 20 Ah @ 6 VDC batteries= 1 20 Ah @ 12 VDC battery.
Wire that in parallel with another pair= total battery bank of 40 Ah @ 12 VDC
Yes, your correct, the battery website chart is confusing and I misread it. There's only the model number listed on the batteries. They are Deka, GC10, there's two columns, a 20ah and 5ah, 20ah had 215 listed and 5ah has 157ah listed?
