

| Subject: | Re: Charging batteries in parallel ? |
| From: | Tim Whynot |
| Date: | Mon, 9 Feb 2015 07:03:32 -0500 |
On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 10:15:07 -0800, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >"Maybe it doesn't even matter." > >If they are in fact wired in parallel, then nope, it doesn't matter. > >-- >Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott >1984 Westfalia, auto trans, >Bend, Ore. > >On 02/08/2015 08:37 AM, Dennis Jowell wrote: >> I'm going to install 3 -UB 122230 -12V 22Ah AGM Sealed Deep Cycle Batteries in my Westy. Installed in parallel. My question is how to charged them with my on board charger? Do I put positive on #1 battery and then put negative on #3 battery or just use #1 battery to charge all of them together.? Maybe it doesn't even matter. >> (1988 GL Westy full camper) >> >> Dennis >> >> Dennis Jowell >> Scotch Hollow Farm >> Newbury, Vermont >> Dennis, I would suggest you wire them as you stated. I had my aux batteries wired the other way and it killed a brand new battery. When I took the battery back to be tested it had lost half of its capacity, tho it would charge. One bad battery in parallel can bring the others down with it.
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