GolgiApparatus
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Hello everyone,
I own a 2018 Keystone Summerland 3030BH travel trailer. We've just bought it in a private deal, so although it's practically new we didn't get it through a dealer so I don't have them as a resource.
My question is in regards to the camper's 12V battery, which I've disconnected and brought into the basement for the winter. I purchased a battery charger/maintainer to keep the battery topped off over the winter. The battery itself is an Interstate Deep Cycle RV/Marine battery, and since the camper is a 2018 that was bought new in May of this year, I assume it's a relatively new battery also.
The problem is that the charger/maintainer I have hooked up to the battery is always in "full charge" mode - indicating that the battery is at less than 80% charge and the charger is trying to bring it up to 80-100% to get into the "float"/maintaining level of charging. This is the second charger/maintainer I've purchased because I thought the first one was faulty, but this second one has the same problem so I'm starting to suspect the battery itself is the issue.
I've made sure that the battery is fully charged by plugging our camper into a shore line at my house to charge it up for 1-2 days, then disconnecting the shore line and checking the battery charge level through the camper's monitoring system. That system indicated the battery was fully charged, at which point I brought it straight in to the basement and hooked up the charger/maintainer, only to get the indication that it's less than 80% and in need of "full charge" mode. I know this charger/maintainer isn't made to charge this type of battery, only to maintain and keep it topped off. Could the problem be with the battery itself? According to the camper's monitoring system, the battery has seemed to drop from fully charged to 2/3 charge within 1-2 days of being unplugged, which seems like a pretty significant drop in less than 2 days especially when it's just sitting there and not being used to power anything on the camper. At that rate the battery would probably fall from fully charged to dead within a week even when not being used which doesn't seem right. Any thoughts?
I own a 2018 Keystone Summerland 3030BH travel trailer. We've just bought it in a private deal, so although it's practically new we didn't get it through a dealer so I don't have them as a resource.
My question is in regards to the camper's 12V battery, which I've disconnected and brought into the basement for the winter. I purchased a battery charger/maintainer to keep the battery topped off over the winter. The battery itself is an Interstate Deep Cycle RV/Marine battery, and since the camper is a 2018 that was bought new in May of this year, I assume it's a relatively new battery also.
The problem is that the charger/maintainer I have hooked up to the battery is always in "full charge" mode - indicating that the battery is at less than 80% charge and the charger is trying to bring it up to 80-100% to get into the "float"/maintaining level of charging. This is the second charger/maintainer I've purchased because I thought the first one was faulty, but this second one has the same problem so I'm starting to suspect the battery itself is the issue.
I've made sure that the battery is fully charged by plugging our camper into a shore line at my house to charge it up for 1-2 days, then disconnecting the shore line and checking the battery charge level through the camper's monitoring system. That system indicated the battery was fully charged, at which point I brought it straight in to the basement and hooked up the charger/maintainer, only to get the indication that it's less than 80% and in need of "full charge" mode. I know this charger/maintainer isn't made to charge this type of battery, only to maintain and keep it topped off. Could the problem be with the battery itself? According to the camper's monitoring system, the battery has seemed to drop from fully charged to 2/3 charge within 1-2 days of being unplugged, which seems like a pretty significant drop in less than 2 days especially when it's just sitting there and not being used to power anything on the camper. At that rate the battery would probably fall from fully charged to dead within a week even when not being used which doesn't seem right. Any thoughts?