Itasca Spirit Batteries losing charge
My 2000 Winnie Itasca Spirit's house batteries won't hold a charge longer than a few days. The batteries are only 2-3 years old. They will accept a charge OK overnight and when I run the engine for a ...
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Bobbo wrote:wwest wrote:
Common problem with battery's connected in parallel, use 2 six volt battery's in series.
This has nothing whatever to do with it. If there is a bad cell, a pair of 6v batteries with a bad cell is not an improvement.
As a matter of fact, with a pair of 12v batteries in parallel, one with a bad cell can be taken out of service and you are still up and running on one battery.
Virtually all 12 volt batteries in RVs are not true deep cycle batteries (unlike 6 volt deep cycle) so they are more likely to fail prematurely.Very good info here.
I went full boogie and put in 6 volt AGM Lifelines.
