rotzla
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- Mar 10, 2008
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Hello,
My wife and I acquired our first motorhome last summer and have been going through all of the learning processes. Most recently was the discovery that the charging unit for the house batteries does not take care of the chassis batteries. Luckily this was discovered at home vs some remote location.
I was not sure if this was a missing feature of our motorhome or another one of the 1st year errata items for the list. I first called the local dealer (in Oregon) to ask them about it but did not get a good answer. The next call was to the factory (Safari), which also did not result in a definitive answer. Finally, I called the dealer I purchased the unit from in Calif. and they informed me that my unit does not have a built in "battery maintainer" circuit and that I would need to add it.
So this long winded story leads me to my question, can anyone suggest a good battery maintainer system for keeping the chassis batteries charged up?
BTW: the unit I have in an '07 Safari Simba Toy Hauler, it's a Freightliner FRED chassis. I have four house batteries located in the middle bay and two chassis batteries up front.
Thanks,
Dave
My wife and I acquired our first motorhome last summer and have been going through all of the learning processes. Most recently was the discovery that the charging unit for the house batteries does not take care of the chassis batteries. Luckily this was discovered at home vs some remote location.
I was not sure if this was a missing feature of our motorhome or another one of the 1st year errata items for the list. I first called the local dealer (in Oregon) to ask them about it but did not get a good answer. The next call was to the factory (Safari), which also did not result in a definitive answer. Finally, I called the dealer I purchased the unit from in Calif. and they informed me that my unit does not have a built in "battery maintainer" circuit and that I would need to add it.
So this long winded story leads me to my question, can anyone suggest a good battery maintainer system for keeping the chassis batteries charged up?
BTW: the unit I have in an '07 Safari Simba Toy Hauler, it's a Freightliner FRED chassis. I have four house batteries located in the middle bay and two chassis batteries up front.
Thanks,
Dave