Author Topic: Battery Charger/Maintainer Installation  (Read 4368 times)

Dick Crovisier

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Battery Charger/Maintainer Installation
« on: June 25, 2012, 08:13:29 PM »
I plan to install two YUASA battery charger/maintainer Smart Shot 900s, one for the house batteries and one for the start batteries in our 2007 Contessa. My plan is to connect to one side of the 230 volt shore power within the engine compartment, run wiring in conduit and install a two outlet GFI box within the engine compartment near the curbside. I can than leave the chargers/maintainers plugged into the outlet that I am adding. My goal is to maintain batteries whenever I am plugged into shore power, the maintainer will function without having to make any connections keeping batteries charged, even if just plugged into 115  volt shore power.

Has anyone done this?. What issues do I need to consider?

Edward Buker

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Re: Battery Charger/Maintainer Installation
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2012, 01:05:58 AM »
Dick,

These coaches have inverter charger systems that should maintain the batteries when plugged in.  If you are plugged in, take a DC voltmeter and measure across the house and chassis batteries and see what the voltage is.  If of over 12.6, they are already being charged. The chargers you are looking at are small and meant mostly to handle small batteries like motorcycle batteries, and have less than 1 amp of output. They will not do the job, given the coach with everything you can manually turn off, in the off position, will still have more current draw than these chargers can put out. Usually there is an echo charger for the chassis batteries or a solenoid coupler, that connects the banks when the voltage is appropriate to do so. The inverter charger system keeps the House Bank charged, and the coupler or echo charger handles the chassis batteries.

Later Ed
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