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This video details how to prevent your pop up camper’s battery, specifically deep cycle 12-volt lead acid batteries, from becoming a paperweight! First, it’s important to ensure that your lead battery’s internals are in tip-top shape. Specifically, it’s important to ensure the metal plates within the battery are completely covered. This is where distilled water comes into play. Simply add a bit of distilled water, with the help of a funnel, which will help ensure that the battery does not prematurely sulfate. I like to keep all of the levels equal or level across all of the cells.
Secondly, it’s important to keep your battery’s charge topped off when it’s not being either, a) charged by the converter via shore power or b) charged by your tow vehicle via a 7-pin connector. This is where a charger/maintainer comes into play. We utilize a 1.2 amp charger to keep our charger topped off when our pop up is not in use. If you don’t keep your battery charged it, it’s possible for parasitic draws, such as the propane alarm, to draw down the battery to the point where you have to purchase a new one! Simply put, it’ll become a paperweight that cannot be rescued! So, save yourself some money and purchase a charger/maintainer and keep your battery topped off at least every 30 days if it’s not connected to the pop up. If it is connected to the pop up, keep it connected all the time.
This brings me to my next point. If you want an easy way to ensure there are no parasitic draws from the pop up, consider installing a kill-switch or disconnect switch, which we also have a video on found here: • Pop Up Camper MODS | 1...
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