We payed the price for convenience
Let's start with last year. End of the season, last trip. As we are hooking up to head home the battery dies and we have to use jumper cables to raise the fifth-wheel to hook up the truck. Battery was...
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schlep1967 wrote:mpierce wrote:
Ouch. You got a crappy WFCO? Ones everyone on here, me included, say to get rid of because they do a terrible job of charging the battery?
Lol did you see the part where I said I didn't have cell service. Had I been able to do research I would have done several things differently. The original got us through 4 years of hard use and we used one battery in that time. Next time I'll be better prepared.
My suggestion? Why wait until this WFCO dies? It will NEVER charge your battery adequately, unless plugged in for DAYS!
Spend the money, get the PD with pendant, NOW. Put your NEW WFCO up for sale on ebay. You will get a portion of your money back. You WILL be amazed how much better the PD charges your battery.
I swapped a NEW WFCO out of a new toy hauler, and put in a PD9280, with pendant. Soooooo much faster, and fills the battery to full MUCH sooner.
