Battery disconnect in storage

[Adam Hicklin]

I need to store the coach at an outdoor storage facility for a couple months while selling our house.  It has only ever been stored at my house, plugged in.  Should I disconnect the batteries?  Use the disconnect switches?  I’m not sure the solar panel will keep up with the parasitic drain on the chassis battery and I don’t want a dead battery when need to get it out of storage.

Thanks in advance. 

[Carl Boger]

Adam,

I would turn off the inverter and the house batteries, but I would leave the chassis batteries on to keep the Cat engine powered so you do not loose the memory.  This is assuming you have a Cat engine.

I would also consider going by every week or so and making sure the Chassis Batteries are not dead.  You can run the generator to top them off.

I know that my chassis batteries will go dead in a little over 2 weeks if I am not plugged in.  That was before I installed a echo charger so I may get longer now if the solar is keeping up.

[Stan Simpson]

Adam, I just completed 5 months at our house in Florida, storing the coach at an RV park while we were there. It does not have a power connection. I disconnect both the chassis and house batteries, after making sure they are on float when I do so. I check on them about every three weeks, running the generator if necessary for a couple of hours.