I add a small amount to each cell. Google it and you can get quite a lot of information. It has also been talked about a lot on the Class A forum and elsewhere on the site. My dad did it all his life and I just kept doing it. No one has ever convinced me I shouldn't and it has not seemed to harmed my batteries ever so I just keep going.
Bob
National Tradewinds with Nissan 4x4 Ext Cab/Honda CRV Toad
It's the Journey not the Destination
RVing since 1970
Mineral oil idea sounds interesting. May try it for the winter to help keep the evaporation down.
I can't remember what my house batteries are - Trojans I think! They are now 3 years old and seem to be doing well. I would have preferred to have had 2 of the 6 volt golf cart batteries that I can get down here on the tide flats in Tacoma. I used them for my sailboat for years and they are tough. Had 4 of them for my house batteries and had over 600+ amp hours with them. Would have put them in when I got the Trojans, but the old house batteries went out in Park City MT. so didn't have much choice!!
Hopefully, the orginal start battery will hold out until spring. What do all use for your start battery on a gas rig?
Ron & Carolyn
Sadie the Irish Terrier
Happy the Lakeland Terrier
From sailing yacht to land yacht
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Ron Butler wrote: Mineral oil idea sounds interesting. May try it for the winter to help keep the evaporation down.
Hopefully, the orginal start battery will hold out until spring. What do all use for your start battery on a gas rig?
Ron, I now have all Schwab batteries in mine. Had to get a new engine battery two years ago at the Port Townsend mini rally, then replaced the house batteries last summer. I'm pretty sure they were all made by Trojan. Think I'll try the mineral oil also, my engine battery is getting some corrosion on the hold down.
Tom
2002 Winnebago Brave 30W 8.1L
2004 Jeep Liberty W/US Gear Braking System
1999 Bichon Frise (Guard Dog)
Brazels Ultra Power Mod
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FMCA F277504
I have 2 6V schwabs on the trailer and two 12Vs on the Excursion. I haven't had any corrosion problems with the 6V,but the car batteries corrode every several weeks or so. I cleaned them the other day before we left as the rig wasn't running right.Pulled them off,brushed them off,washed them down with soda and then sprayed them with that red stuff and today I noticed that one of the positive cables wqas corroding already.I'm going to clean them again and use that bi-metal stuff that a couple of techs have told me about...
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2001 Ford 7.3L PSD Excursion
Ride Rite air bags
AFE Stage1 air-inlet
4"MBRP exhaust
Hellwig rear sway bar 2005 Keystone COUGAR 304BHS
Tekonsha Prodigy
1200 Equalizer hitch
2008 Thomas w/Mercedes-Benz 78 pass. school bus
Took the RV to Advanced RV here in Vancouver. They ran a full check on the electrical. Everything turned out good. The two coach batteries were only running on 3 cells. So we bought two new Trojan batteries, a new fuse for the booster that was burnt out and we were good to go. Hope they were right. Now we have to take it to campers world Tues. They installed the banks exhaust and it is leaking. This is under warranty though. Gosh, it seems like it is always something. Pretty soon we will have to get a job just to camp!!!!!!!!!!
Yep, it's always something, even if it's a new rig like ours. While we were outside enjoying a nice campfire this past weekend, we heard this weird loud bang. Sounded like a M-80 in a 5 gallon bucket (yep, I have some experience doing that ). What we didn't notice at the time was the few outside lights at the CG had gone out. Yep, it was an electrical transformer somewhere nearby that blew and knocked out power to the CG. We basically discovered all this when we finally went in the TT to go to bed and the lights on the fridge were blinking. And you know what those mean, don't ya? Yep, there was no electrical power to run it, so it tried to go on propane and couldn't, even though both tanks were plenty full enough and the furnace and stove worked fine. Well, no worries, we were going to bed anyway and it wasn't warm outside, so things in the fridge should be good overnight, and they were. Power came back sometime during the night and everything was back to normal. But now I have to take the TT to the dealer so they can hopefully figure out what's wrong with the brand new fridge in our brand new trailer. Grrrr!
DavidG wrote: But now I have to take the TT to the dealer so they can hopefully figure out what's wrong with the brand new fridge in our brand new trailer. Grrrr!
I hear you. I think we had ours in four times in the past year for warranty work. Two burned out wiper blade motors. They finally got the storage bay under the driver sealed on the third try (we drove through rain today and no water in there when we stopped). Still have one speaker in the bedroom buzzing.
On a happier note, we are sitting at Mystery Mountain RV Park and Campground about halfway between Rapid City and Mt. Rushmore. Tomorrow morning its on to Souix City after visiting Mt. Rushmore, then into St. Paul area on Saturday, where we sit for a week! This has been too fast a trip. Too many miles in a day.
I was on the computer this day trying to find why any one would put mineral oil in there Battery. So far I could not find anywhere the WHY.
If any one knows the why, show me
Hobo
Hobo, this is what I can tell you from my experience over the years.
1. I do not get corrosion on my terminals
2. It seems to me that I loose much less water
3. My DADDY did it.
I float about 1/4 inch on top of each cell. I can say that it has never caused me any problems and I do feel that it has helped. Whether it really has I don't know but I still do it and so do my kids. Of course they do it because I did it and I do it becasue Dad did it.
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). What we didn't notice at the time was the few outside lights at the CG had gone out. Yep, it was an electrical transformer somewhere nearby that blew and knocked out power to the CG. We basically discovered all this when we finally went in the TT to go to bed and the lights on the fridge were blinking. And you know what those mean, don't ya? Yep, there was no electrical power to run it, so it tried to go on propane and couldn't, even though both tanks were plenty full enough and the furnace and stove worked fine. Well, no worries, we were going to bed anyway and it wasn't warm outside, so things in the fridge should be good overnight, and they were. Power came back sometime during the night and everything was back to normal. But now I have to take the TT to the dealer so they can hopefully figure out what's wrong with the brand new fridge in our brand new trailer. Grrrr!
