Storage, no electric question

[SeeTheUSA]

Howdy all,

I’ve always stored our motorhomes at a place with electricity, so I’d just leave them plugged in and didn’t turn off anything or isolate the batteries. Now I find a need to leave our View setting several months with no electricity, so I’m wondering how to do it properly.

Can I simply switch off the coach’s “salesman’s switch” (the one down by the bottom of the entry steps) and pull the chassis battery cable (the one by the accelerator pedal)?

Or what would you recommend?

Thanks for your advice.

[Winterbagoal]

That will work.

I leave my Navion outside in the summer, not plugged in, and let the rooftop solar do the work of charging the coach batteries, and I use a portable battery maintainer, plugged into one of the "inverter powered" AC outlets, and the other end into the 12V DC cigar lighter outlet under the ashtray, to keep the chassis battery up as well. That outlet is "always hot" to the chassis battery.

Some people prefer to wire a Triklstart unit into the coach/chassis battery wiring under the passenger seat, but I preferred a portable solution that doesn't require factory equipment modification.

[SeeTheUSA]

Thanks for your ideas!

I should have mentioned ... the spot where our View will set is covered, so I don’t suppose the solar panels will help much By the way, I already have a Trik-L-Start.

[Winterbagoal]

OK, then.
You could get a 100W+ portable panel with long wires, place it an unshaded area nearby, and plug it into the auxilliary solar port in the back of the electrical bay, and charge the coach batteries that way. Let the Triklstart do the chassis. Reduce all other coach battery draws to near zero.
Or, go with your plan A. Disable coach batteries, and pull the chassis battery connector by the gas pedal. Just try to visit them all when you can, to check on charge status.