Charging starting battery
I have a 2003 Sunova 30B and it stays plugged in over the winter. My house batteries are charged up but the starting battery is not charged off the 110 volt. I was thinking of adding a battery maintai...
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smkettner wrote:jerseyjim wrote:Trik-L-Start draws 5 milliamps and will drain a typical battery to 50% in 10,000 hours or 400 days.
I have a TRIK-L-START and it works fine...as long as you're plugged into shore power (like snowbirdng, for instance). Simply put, it "cannibalizes" the power from the 2 6V batteries into the 12V starter battery so it never runs down....and you can always start the motor, and in addition all the stuff powered by the 12V starter battery keeps going.
However....MY experience with the gadget is that if you leave everything intact when NOT being on shore power, (storage, for instance) ALL the batteries drop after a month or two. No coach power...no engine start power. Then the jumper cables come into play.
Just saying it is the other parasites.
Trik-L-Start operates in the same fashion as the Xantrex Echo Charger does; It will charge the Chassis battery ONLY if it needs it and ONLY if the house batteries are at 13.0 Volts or better. In other words, if your house batteries went dead it was not the fault of the Trik-L-Start. For long term storage of course you need to either disconnect the fully charged batteries OR have some charging mechanism either shore power or solar. Either Trik-L-Start or the Xantrex Echo Charger will do what the OP wants.
