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Topic: How many of us are there? Owners of Dodge based RV's?

Posted By: Leeann on 09/09/10 03:32pm

Griff in Fairbanks wrote:

ALnCORY wrote:

In the "Its great to have good neighbors dept", mine works for a trucking company that used deep cell 6 volt batts for a sleeper air conditioning system. They decided to change over to 12 volt batts and the shop foreman asked my neighbor if he needed some 6 volt deep cells for an RV or anything. He said no but let me check with my neighbor. Last night he dropped off 2 Excide Extreme Duty x-27 6 volt deep cells rated @ 220 amp hours at 20 hr rate. They should give me more juice than I will need in my little rig (battery's only run interior lights and water pump) Better to be lucky than good sometimes.

I'm jealous.


So'm I.


'73 Concord 20' Class A w/Dodge 440 - see profile for photo


Posted By: ALnCORY on 09/09/10 04:24pm

LeeAnn and Griff,,, sorry you don't live closer.. I think they had several of these... but I only had room for 2.

Like I said... great to have good neighbors.


I don't think anyones dying statement ever contained the words "I wish I had spent more time in the office", so lets go somewhere!


Posted By: goreds2 on 09/09/10 05:00pm

Probably a simple question for you all.

To charge the cabin battery when the RV cord is plugged into my house outlet, do I switch to CONV or BATT on the box (in the RV) or does it matter?

Thanks,

* This post was edited 09/09/10 06:44pm by goreds2 *


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I have a 1989 Dodge XPLORER RV Class B - Purchased 10/15/10 IN CASH
Fiance' purchased a Class C 2002 Dynamax Carri-go on 5/1/15 IN CASH
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Posted By: Trish Davis on 09/10/10 11:28am

ALnCORY wrote:

LeeAnn and Griff (and Trish), sorry you don't live closer.. I think they had several of these... but I only had room for 2.

Like I said... great to have good neighbors.


Uh-huh. We know where you live.
And Leeann can figure out the GPS, don't think you are safe.

Update.
JJ Abrams is the director of the local movie and Spielberg is the producer. Yeah... a real movie with real money. The Travco films Sept 22-24th.


Posted By: ALnCORY on 09/10/10 12:18pm

Trish writes: Uh-huh. We know where you live.
And Leeann can figure out the GPS, don't think you are safe.

Ya'll come on over anytime.... I'll buy the beer...

The Travco in a real flick.... I might have to go to the movies.


Posted By: oldtrucker63 on 09/10/10 04:04pm

Yeah Movie time......Yea


Without Trucks,....America Stop's


Posted By: goreds2 on 09/10/10 04:07pm

goreds2 wrote:

Probably a simple question for you all.

To charge the cabin battery when the RV cord is plugged into my house outlet, do I switch to CONV or BATT on the box (in the RV) or does it matter?

Thanks,


Anyone? [emoticon]


Posted By: Griff in Fairbanks on 09/10/10 04:30pm

goreds2 wrote:

goreds2 wrote:

Probably a simple question for you all.

To charge the cabin battery when the RV cord is plugged into my house outlet, do I switch to CONV or BATT on the box (in the RV) or does it matter?

Thanks,


Anyone? [emoticon]

In all honesty, I'd use a good multi-stage battery charger plugged into an outlet. I've never trusted the older power converters ... the 1970 model I had in the (first) motorhome always overcharged the batteries and boiled the cells dry if I'd let it. (Some of the better, newer converters have a built-in charger function but yours is probably one of the older ones.)


1970 Explorer Class A on a 1969 Dodge M300 chassis with 318 cu. in. (split year)
1972 Executive Class A on a Dodge M375 chassis with 413 cu. in.
1973 Explorer Class A on a Dodge RM350 (R4) chassis with 318 engine & tranny from 1970 Explorer Class A



Posted By: Trish Davis on 09/10/10 07:42pm

Griff is right. Never trust a converter!


Posted By: Trish Davis on 09/10/10 07:45pm

ALnCORY wrote:

Ya'll come on over anytime.... I'll buy the beer...

The Travco in a real flick.... I might have to go to the movies.


Yep, 3 tons of fiberglass, coming right at you...

Right now, Leeann is saying "uh-huh, I told her not to paint it flat black."


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