Could somebody anwer this please

[Dan Williams]

Jon, The older coaches used the same
batteries for starting and dry camping. That is really not a good idea
because then you will be trying to start the coach with low voltage batteries
after a night of dry camping and that is bad for the starter. Right now I
have two 8D batteries plus a generator battery in my coach. It takes two
8D’s because one is not enough CCA to start the 8v92. Each one has
1300 CCA. What I would like to do, but I don’t know how to do it, is
add two more high amp starting batteries just for starting the engine and
separate the 8D’s to be used for house batteries. That way the
starting batteries should always be at full voltage and the house batteries can
be run low and then charged by the engine alternator. I think the six
volt batteries were an attempt to get more camping amp hours out of the battery
bank but the bigger problem with older coaches is the single battery bank IMO.

Dan

88PT38

Jackson, MS

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From: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jon

Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009
11:28 AM

To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Could
somebody anwer this please

There was a thread on here about battery's just about
a week ago and I

was wondering why can't you use single 12 volt batterys in our

coaches? Of course they would be the type that hold a charge for

longer durations than a standard 12 volt. I would also install

another set of a batterys for the generator itself. Jon