Battery in Michigan winter ?
Just picked up our new 5th wheel. Was wondering what to do with the battery for the winter? Should I remove the battery from the coach and keep inside till spring? Thanks for your responce
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Many in cold country leave it in the rig. The trick is to make sure it is disconnected. The battery will freeze if it is ran down, even though you may think you turned off everything there are things that will draw power (i.e. propane detector, Carbon Monoxide detector, etc...)
So before storage what is best to do is disconnect the batter and then put it on a charger to make sure it has a full charge. What you should have done (maybe you did) a month or two before was check the water level and then add distilled if it needed it. It takes a few charges to fully mix the distilled into the battery acid. So lets say you just added it now that water will float on the top and could possible freeze and crack the case, while the charged acid below would be good to something like -90f.
Other thing is if you do bring it in make sure you don't set it on concrete. This will actually discharge the battery. Place something that's non-conductive (ie wood, foam, etc...) under it.
So before storage what is best to do is disconnect the batter and then put it on a charger to make sure it has a full charge. What you should have done (maybe you did) a month or two before was check the water level and then add distilled if it needed it. It takes a few charges to fully mix the distilled into the battery acid. So lets say you just added it now that water will float on the top and could possible freeze and crack the case, while the charged acid below would be good to something like -90f.
Other thing is if you do bring it in make sure you don't set it on concrete. This will actually discharge the battery. Place something that's non-conductive (ie wood, foam, etc...) under it.
