Charging 6v golf cart batteries?
Hello all! I'm new to campers but have been enjoying learning about my new (used) Viking 10ft popup truck bed camper. It did not come with any house batteries. After some research and looking at my b...
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Boon Docker wrote:
My trailer must be an oddball, because I have (2) 6 volt batteries. Taking into account that there are not supposed to be any 6 volt batteries in trailers, very strange indeed.
What you have is a 12 volt battery split into two 6 volt parts for easy of installation and handling. (And lower cost but that's another thread)
Together they make a 12 volt battery
As I said I have seen many questions about six volt batteries.
Can I have two different brands
Can one be bigger than the other
Can one be newer than the other
Can I replace just one.
If you think of them Combined as a single 12 volt battery then the answer to all those questions is very clear.. not confusing at all.
(The answers by the way are all NO)
But people insist on confusing others by thinking of them as 6 volt batteries instead of two halves of a single 12 volt battery.
Which is what they are. Two halves of a single 12 volt collection of cells. (Battery).
