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Originally Posted by malk415
gents..
I followed the winnebego tech sheet on hooking up my trik-l-start. The way the tech sheet said to hook it up the chassis batteries are not being charged when the house battery switch is off.
Do most guys hook it up this way or only to one solenoid so that the chassis batteries are charged all the time regardless of the house battery switch position?
Seems to me that when hooked up to charge all the time you could end up with two sets of dead batteries instead of one if the coach sat a long time and the small 10w solar panel did not keep up.
Mark
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Mark
The Way you have it hooked up and the way Winnebago says to do it, the only time the chassis batteries receive charge is when you have your dash switch in the on position. This engages your house batteries and also all the parasitic draws that go along with it. ex. smoke detectors etc.
By hooking the TrikLStart over to the battery isolator solonoid you can NOW turn off your dash switch, eliminating all the parasitic draws.
In your case, yes indeed you could have dead batteries with long periods of little sunshine and if your parasitic draw was more than the little solar panel could keep up with.
The way I show it to be wired, with the dash switch off, all parasitic draws are eliminated, all the charge from solar go to batteries.
The two solonoids are within inches of each other. Just move the wires from the house battery on/off solonoid over to the battery isolator solonoid
Any batteries will go dead if not maintained and cared for, regardless of the way the triklstart is hooked up.