Posted by Nancy Howell on April 12, 2012 at 07:40:02 from (144.162.48.206):
My horse trailer has a small living quarters package. When electrical hook ups are available everything runs off that. When a hook up isn"t available, there is a deep cycle, marine/rv battery that will power the interior lights and the water pump. The lq package was put in about 1-1/2 yrs ago.
Most of the time I have used a hook up. When the power switch is on and the trailer hooked to a vehicle, there is a 2 amp draw off the vehicle which is supposed to help keep the rv battery charged.
I"m going on a trail ride this week end and there aren"t any hook ups. Decided it would be a good idea to make sure the rv battery had a full charge.
I didn"t think it would need much, so at first I put my 2 amp trickle charger on. It was on almost 24 hrs. When I checked it yesterday evening, it was still charging which surprised me so I got the big charger and put that on.
The big charger has a digital read out. When I first hooked it up, the display read 13.3. Checked it about 3 hours later and it was reading 13.1. Since its got an automatic shut off, I decided to leave it on overnight and check it in the morning. I also pried open the lids to the battery chambers a little so gasses wouldn"t build up.
This morning when I checked it, it was reading 12.8. I didn"t want to leave it on all day, so I disconnected it.
Now the question, is it normal for deep cycle rv/marine batteries to take a long time to charge up? I"m not familiar with that type of battery so I don"t know how long it takes to charge. I know the battery wasn"t completely down, because the lights and pump still worked well.
Should I switch the charger to the higher 20 amp rate and continue charging? I do want the battery fully charged since there aren"t any electrical hook ups at the place where I will be riding.
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