Battery Maintenance
- Your batteries require periodic maintenance to keep the coach powered up and to get the longest life from them.
- Check the water in your batteries at least once a month and top off to the top of the plates with distilled water.
- Deep cycle batteries have a life expectancy of 3-5 years and will need replaced when their life cycle is over.
- You should clean the connections at the batteries where the wires hook up to the posts at least once every 3 months and possibly more depending on how often they are charged.
- You should keep your batteries charged when not using your RV. It is natural for them to slowly go dead when sitting, if you let them go dead too many times it will affect the life of your batteries. By keeping your RV plugged in when storing it will maintain the charge in the batteries.
- Most RV’s come equipped with 12 volt batteries. If you do a lot of dry camping you should consider upgrading to 6 volt batteries. You will get about twice the capacity and a much longer running time by switching to these batteries.
- Take your batteries off of your RV in the winter and store the somewhere warm. If you batteries are left on your RV through the winter and they go dead they will freeze and the cases will break making them no good and warranty will not cover batteries that have froze. Be sure to label the wires as to where they go so when spring comes you will know which wires go to which terminals.
