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Chassis battery disconnect

Yahoo Message Number: 87260
When parked for an extended period of time on shore power, say 4 months.....does anyone just throw the chassis battery disconnect instead of relying on the Echo charger? Joe Cronin Magna 6223

Re: Chassis battery disconnect

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Yahoo Message Number: 87261
Hello Joe,

with more than 10 years experience on European streets

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and 3 CC's in the US I always use a mechanical switch to disconnect the batteries.
First I don't trust the echo chargers, had bad experience when the charger failed and charged all the batteries to death.
Second I don't trust the solenoids as disconnecter because they fail, happened to me with a brand new CC in Northern Canada when I suddenly had no more power on the house. Thanks God I'm a mechanical engineer so I could connect the cables in front and behind the solenoid.
And this solenoids never disconnect the house batteries completely because then you have to reprogram your home theater and more.
(argument by a CC technician !!!) What a joke.

Hermann (the German)

2007 Inspire Genoa #52006
MAZDA Mx5 in tow.

Re: Chassis battery disconnect

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Yahoo Message Number: 87270
My echo charger stopped working and checked all the fuses and had power to charger. So instead of replacing the Echo- I bought a 2 amp trickle charger. Connect it when I am parked for a while.

Robert & Chee Chee Huffhines
2007 Tribute #81042
2006 Jeep Liberty



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From: Joe

To: Country-Coach-Owners@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 10:26 AM Subject: [Country-Coach-Owners] Chassis battery disconnect

When parked for an extended period of time on shore power, say 4 months.....does anyone just throw the chassis battery disconnect instead of relying on the Echo charger? Joe Cronin Magna 6223

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Re: Chassis battery disconnect

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Yahoo Message Number: 87280
I have been using Accumate trickle chargers for years for cars, motorcycles, lawn tractors, boats: http://www.accumate.com/ I have NEVER had a dead battery using these things and have had batteries like my motorcycle or boatbattery last 8 years keeping them fully charged with the Accumate.
I haven't put my coach into long term storage yet... but I had been wondering how I would correctly use these Accumates for my coach house and chassis batteries, since in both cases I have more than one. I have half a dozen of these trickle chargers and would love to have someone who understands electrical theory better than I, explain how to do it.
Theoretically I could use both the house and chassis disconnects and then connect one Accumate to each set of batteries. I have two new chassis 12v batteries... and 4 new wet cell 6v house batteries. Does it matter which battery in the series I connect to? I had asked my Ford dealer once on this subject with regard to my Ford diesel pickup which had two chassis batteries and they had suggested I connect speciffically to one side... can't recall whether it was driver's side or passenger side. So I was led to believe it does matter.
If it does matter, how to connect, specifically, on my country coach?

Joseph Burkle

2008 Country Coach Inspire 360 Founders Edition 43' quad slide tag axle 425 HP C9 pusher http://www. Wind-seeker.com/