If the camper battery is severly discharged and you run your truck for a short time afterwards, the discharged battery can pull down your main battery more than the alternator can restore it until many miles are driven. I would not put a battery on you camper wiring pin or "between" your vehicle and camper for 2 reasons. It looks like the converter will handle a battery on it from the instruction plate. I don't like the idea of running off the vehicle battery when I'm camping, so I'd like to figure some way out to hook up a dedicated battery for the camper. Originally posted by dan brooks I just bought a '96 Palomino slide-in, and it doesn't appear to have any provisions for a dedicated battery. I am sure if the wire diagram is not there, print the converter model number here and somebody will be able to help you (at least my Shadow Cruser is that way I think, I can hear it "click" the relay when I connect the AC to the camper) If I am not mistaking, the older ones even have a relay that clicks when you plug in the AC, so it takes the battery out of the "output" circuit of the converter, and hooks it up to a 5amp charger that is built it. The good news is all the chargers/converters that I have seen have a wire diagram printed inside there door (or somewhere inside) that shows where to hook the battery to. When you put the battery across it, it may act like a capacitor and clean up the supply, causing the voltage to "attempt" to go even higher (which is will do, once the battery is fully charged, until it boils all the water out of it). They put out far to much voltage for a battery, and its not really DC, its Dirty DC. I don't know if they ever made them without this dedicated circuit, but you don't want to just hook the battery up to the output side of the AC/DC converter. I guess the slide-in has a system where you can plug it in, and have 12V lights running? If it does, you need to determine if the charger/power supply also has a circuit dedicated for battery charging. I can generally follow a diagram, so that would be a big help. Needless to say, I'm not real good with all this electrical stuff, and I don't know if this is the right way or not. Then, hook the power "in" and ground wires from the camper to the battery. Does anyone have a wiring diagram to do this? My thoughts were to run a wire from the "charge" pin of the plug to the "+" battery terminal, and also run the ground from the plug to the "-" terminal. I need to figure out how to get the "new" battery to charge and also hook it up to the camper. The "charge" wire is hot only with the ignition on, and as far as I can tell it is wired through a constant duty solenoid, and has a circuit breaker between it and the battery. ![]() The truck is wired for a 5th wheel and has the 7-pin plug in the bed. I just bought a '96 Palomino slide-in, and it doesn't appear to have any provisions for a dedicated battery.
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