Date:         Sun, 3 May 1998 23:03:29 PDT
Reply-To:     midworld midworld <midworld@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         midworld midworld <midworld@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Aux Battery: Life span of charged battery
Comments: To: vanagon@vanagon.com
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I Have a colman plugin cooler and on my way to Alaska when I pluged it
in to the the lighter outlet all worked fine untill I stoped and turned
off the van and then it would not start so I would have to push it so
start it.  when I stoped using the cooler all was fine those coolers
draw a lot of power so I thought I just needed a second battery.

Cecil T

Frodo Lives!!!


>Last fall I installed a deep cycle 32amp/hr wheelchair battery as an
>auaillary for my '84 westy. I have it wired through the relay under the
>driver's seat. Everything in the sink/stove/fridge area will run off
this
>aux battery while camping, etc. I understood that if you ran the fridge
>off the aux, you would get a max of 3hrs out of the battery.So, instead
of
>using the fridge i used an Igloo plug-in cooler which I plugged into an
>accessory outlet I have wired in off the aux batt. This
>also killed the battery within 3hrs. Should this have died this
quickly? I
>would think the cooler would draw much less power than the fridge
would. I
>mean, this is the same type of battery that goes into a wheelchair and
>those can go for a whole day. Both of my batteries charge off the stock
>alternator with no modifications made except tapping into the existing
>relay under the driver's seat.
>
> I think I'll try to fix the propane on the
>fridge.
>
>-steve-
>


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