Re: 2004 U320 Chassis battery charging when plugged in
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I have had almost perfect luck trying to keep engine batteries charged. Did you read the almost? One mistake and then running the chassis batteries down affects their life quite a bit.
My understanding is that new coaches use auto combining relays. If either battery bank is being charged then the other bank is auto connected.
As my coach is outdoors and has no external power available I had a blue-seas ACR wired in. Auto connecting relay.
Then 1100 watts of solar. And a solar controller. And a battery temp system. And a newer inverter.
After my wallet recovered from the zillion dollar bill it is an old rv'er satisfaction to walk up into the coach and both battery banks are at 100% correct full charged voltage based on the house battery banks actually temperature.
This was an rv'ers dream 40 years ago. In my case adding new gel batteries(3) added to the dream fulfillment.
In my next life I might have an rv with the new fangled li-ion complete setup. Double or triple capacity.
My draws are not that high. Yet.
Why all the elaborate installs? I had trikl-chargers fail internally due to too high of a load. Green light on. No power. Make sure when you store your coach that all batteries are fully charged unless you have good shore power and a connection to the chassis batteries.
In my case I only need the sun to shine. Harder to interrupt
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