Charge controllers
I'm a fulltimer and my 2017 5er is almost always hooked up to shore power. I have 2 12v batteries. I 'believe' one is strictly for the inverter circuit (residential frig and possibly WH). The other ba...
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I agree. It makes no sense to me to have two divided like this.
Running a residential fridge off an inverter off one battery? Yikes! For that reason alone I would connect the two batteries. They do not have to be exactly side by side to connect them, but use a very heavy gauge wire to connect them. Many trucks will have their two batteries on either side of the engine bay.
How are the batteries connected? Is there a solenoid that connects both to each other when plugged in and disconnects them when not?
Or the charger has two outputs?
Or a large diode?
Running a residential fridge off an inverter off one battery? Yikes! For that reason alone I would connect the two batteries. They do not have to be exactly side by side to connect them, but use a very heavy gauge wire to connect them. Many trucks will have their two batteries on either side of the engine bay.
How are the batteries connected? Is there a solenoid that connects both to each other when plugged in and disconnects them when not?
Or the charger has two outputs?
Or a large diode?
