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Old 11-22-2020, 01:20 PM   #21
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quote: TitanMike: BTW, how many people put this much 'worry" into the Lithium batteries in their cell phones, laptops, or even flashlights, etc?

You can live without any of those easily, but when you lose your coach battery on a cold winter night, you're suffering.
Our generation can. Try taking a cell phone away from any young lady under the age or let's say 35 and see what happens


As for loosing a coach battery on a cold winter night, if they were charged before the night began little chance with Lithium. Bigger chance with Lead Acid.
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Also possible to replace with a Deck Mount placed close to batteries to reduce voltage drop in DC line. Just need ro run 120vac line from converter breaker to new converter location. Romex is far less expensive than heavy gauge welding cable.

If you choose the latter method bypassing existing converter is as simple as merely disconnecting both 120vac and 12vdc wires. Deck Mount now connects to batteries directly and existing wire from batteries to fuse board stays connected.
This is what I did. I saw a huge jump in charging speed by doing so. Worst parts were feeding a wire up to the distribution panel (I took over the circuit breaker from the old converter) and then crawling/running the 120v wire the length of the RV. Figure my 12v power distance went from 30+ feet to under 4 feet.
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