Lithium batteries
Who has installed lithium batteries but didn’t change your charging from truck to camper batteries by adding DC to DC charger
Forum Discussion
NRALIFR wrote:
Srschang, is the changing wire to the camper on your truck not switched by the ignition? Even if it’s not, why would your trucks AGM’s not like 14.6? The AGM charging specs I’ve looked at seem to like up to about 14.9.
That’s assuming that the 14.6 from the camper is even reaching the truck batteries, that is. There’s about 20 or so feet of wire between the camper converter and the truck batteries on a crew cab pickup, so the voltage drop is going to be considerable. At any rate, a few minutes with a volt meter would tell you.
For me, having multiple ways of recharging the camper battery is a good thing. I’m not always in a developed campground, or even in an environment where solar can be totally relied on. It would be nice to have a panel or two on the roof, but the DC-DC charger isn’t dependent on the sun. If I ever get around to adding a solar panel, I’ll just connect it to the solar input on the Redarc.
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I don't know how the truck/camper charging interface works, that's why I disconnected the charging wire from the truck. Didn't want to screw anything up on my one month old truck. And like I said, the solar takes care of all the charging we need.
Scott
