covered wagon wrote:
desertratt1 wrote:
I thank everyone for all the impute. Looks like i need to do some checking. I looked under the hood pulled the fuse/relay cover i have a trailer relay. Not sure how all that works. Camper is off truck i will hook it up start checking things out. I just assumed the truck would charge the battery period. My Dodge is a camper special. I plan on installing a 200 watt solar setup at some point but i considered the truck charging the battery in the camper a given. Like i said will look at all the suggestions to resolve this over weekend. Than will get back and post.
Thanks
Rick
My 02 is a camper special as well. I have my continious duty relay switched so I can let the alternater replenish the starting batts from using the starter, grid heaters and finally seat heaters. Once warmed up and time allowed to charge the truck batts, I switch that on to take care of the two camper batteries. 5 hrs run time brings it up to near full charge on 2 deep cycle 12 volt batts. It works great and run furnace whenever I need, sometimes all night.
That was a good suggestion to make sure your fridge is not set to run 12 volts. I never use the automated setting.
So you switch on the fly and let the truck run "on batteries only" for a while, while sending all the alternator power to the camper batteries?
That is very interesting and outwardly sounds ingenious. Not sure how it would integrate with vehicle systems that monitor SOC of the vehicle start batteries. Pretty cool though!
