Need Some help with my battery system
Last fall we purchased a used toy hauler with an onboard Onan 5500. It also has a residential fridge. We had the dealer install two golf cart batteries in place of the 12-volt batteries. The tech guy ...
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Gdetrailer wrote:2oldman wrote:
Sounds like you need a battery monitor, and 2 more batteries. Resi fridges get hungry.
Not all residential fridges are "hungry", mine can easily operate off one pair of GC2 6V batteries for 24 hrs before needing recharged.
Granted, my home fridge conversion I spent a lot of time weeding out heavy power user fridges and opted for a 10 CuFt apartment size fridge which sips power.. Something that most RV manufacturers will ignore..
OP got less than 5 hrs of operation, either batteries were not fully charged before the test or they have additional 12V loads not accounted for..
At the rate the OP is going adding 2 more GC2s would only get them 10 hrs tops so throwing more batteries at the problem doesn't solve the problem..
I'm wondering if one or both of the batteries is bad. they are only six months old. They had been plugged in to shore power for three weeks. They should have been fully charged.
