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02-18-2020, 03:51 PM #21
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To all that have mentioned it,
The more I think about it, 700mA seems crazy high for the Schwinteck controller at idle. Does anyone have a reference or a real measurement of what it should draw?
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02-18-2020, 03:58 PM #22
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The power from the truck (7 pin harness) comes into mine at the bank of auto reset breakers. In my case it is the blue wire. That blue wire also feeds the hitch light and the dome light in the front bay. I would assume that is so the truck can power those lights even with no battery installed? That's a stretch, but it's the only reason I can think of to set it up that way.
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02-18-2020, 04:02 PM #23
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And about the battery selector switch...
I have thought about using one of those to select in a two battery setup. I would run one and save the other as a reserve battery. (Don't know if they still make motorcycle fuel valves like that.)
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02-18-2020, 04:06 PM #24
We just were out at our rig (reflection 26rl) and this is what we found regarding parasitic drains on the battery = 0. That's with the battery disconnect off.
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02-18-2020, 04:22 PM #25
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02-18-2020, 05:17 PM #26
I only posted this because I read the first post yesterday. I mentioned it to my husband, and he looked when we went out to the rig today. We've never made any changes to achieve the zero drain on the battery.
It seems that different rigs have different connection setups (maybe depends on who made the connections on any given day at the factory).
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02-18-2020, 05:46 PM #27
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02-18-2020, 05:57 PM #28
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I was surprised to learn that my basement lights bypass the cutoff switch. I only mention that because I normally set the lights so they come on when detecting motion. I was very surprised to find my battery dead after what seemed like a very short time compared with other trailers. I don't know what the drain is since I've not measured the drain yet, but I was surprised. It certainly has to be lower than the 700mA, but it's also not going to be zero since the four lights need some power to detect motion.
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02-18-2020, 06:47 PM #29
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Last edited by GeoffnCheri; 02-18-2020 at 06:57 PM. Reason: light bulb came on in my head
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02-19-2020, 02:58 PM #30
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A fair number of people have had that second thought, including me.
I have four (very heavy) 6V batteries configured as two 12V. I’ll probably replace them but there’s no practical alternative that I know about that will pack hundreds of amp-hours into a single battery so a two-battery switch made sense to me. It might make sense (future-proofing) for you. This is the one I and others here have installed.
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