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Originally Posted by The_Breeze

I wanted to resurrect this thread to coalesce the information. It's a two part post/question.

1) Does the flowright system work well? I have 4 batteries under the steps. Only two are accessible. The two in the back are left for dead at this point but the batteries were an experiment.
Yes the Flo-Rite works well. Each cell has a float and watering pipe which works the same as in the residential toilet.


2) Old school, if you did nothing but day driving you burned your headlights to put a drain on the chassis battery so not to overcharge. If you're hooked to SP more than you might have planned, can you burn things to keep those batteries from overcharging or does that job belong to the charge controller?

The engine's internal alternator voltage regulator manages voltage for the house and chassis batteries just as it does in your cars . Most RV chargers are three stage which allows for fast recovery (bulk charge) and gradual top-off of the batteries (absorption charge). The last stage is a floating charge much like a battery tender. The more expensive chargers have a fourth stage (equalization) which is not need unless the coach sits for an extended period of time. This sequence three stage sequence avoids over heating and overcharging the batteries which will result in boiling he water out of the batteries.


I listen for the fan as often as I can and it doesn't run much but should I siphon off some charge once in a while and how best to accomplish that?

Thanks.

Hope this helps.