RV surround sound hooked up to TV
Hi All, I recently hooked my own flat screen tv up to the rv's radio using a cassette adapter. Are the radios also run my electrical or am i running down my rv's battery?? TIA!
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CA Traveler wrote:
Typically the alternator will charge the chassis battery and the house battery via the battery isolator.
Typically the built in shore charger will charge only the house battery and not activate the battery isolator.
Typically the radio is connected to the chassis battery and hence will draw down the chassis battery when parked and connected to shore power.
This is the way my 04 Endeavor was designed by Monaco.
I added a small 2 stage charger to the chassis battery for about $30 to make sure both banks were charged.
Lot's of variations of course and I don't know how the OPs rig is configured but possibly the shore charger does not charge the chassis battery.
My current rig has a bidirectional BIRD that senses both battery banks and if one is being charged and the other should be charged then it connects both banks to be charge source regardless of source (alternator, charger or solar).
Okay, i'll check more into that, thanks a bunch!!
