Here's that link Sam. Lots of good stuff on the site. I do think several people misunderstood what I was saying though. I didn't mean to imply that if one battery was bad it would absolutely take out the second. Batteries do tend to want to equalize themselves, and a bad battery can deteriorate a good one. Relays are also not true battery isolators, which is another point I wanted to make. A true battery isolator will shut down a battery when it reaches a certain minimum voltage. This by itself can save a battery and $$. Having a good metering system, I think is key in any case. Anyway, check out the link. I think you'll find it informative. Troy http://westfalia.org/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/87160555/m/1096022211
> Troy, > > I'll look for it. > > But if the two batteries are disconnected when the alternator goes off, > then I can't see how the bad one "sucks the life out" of the good one. > But I may be missing something, as I said. > > I have megabytes of saved threads on the 2nd battery issue, but this is > really something slightly different. I've never seen this discussed as a > reason to not have a relay set up though. I may even have what you are > going to send, but haven't even gone back through all my saved stuff on > batteries. > > Sam > > -- > Sam Walters > > Baltimore, MD > > > |
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