Winterizing Tip: RV Battery Storage | Pete's RV Quick Tips

PetesRV.com expert, Randy Murray provides a step-by-step overview on how to properly store your RV battery when winterizing your camper.

As Randy explains, properly storing your RV battery over winter is key to sustaining its longevity. A battery is filled with acid and will turn into water over time if we let it go completely dead. Leaving a battery hooked onto a camper for two or three days will drain it.

The trick to RV battery storage is to first take the battery from the A frame, and make sure it is charged before we bring it inside. Hook up the RV battery to an amp, and charge it at 10 amps for about a day until the battery gets up to 95% rate. Once the battery has achieved that, we can finish it off by trickle charging the battery at 2 amps, which will take about a day. Once it’s finished charging, Randy recommends storing the battery on top of a piece of wood, because leaving it on any cold surface like cement will shorten the battery’s lifespan and cause a loss in voltage. Lastly, Randy recommends we check up on the battery once a month.

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