How to Wire Dual Camper Batteries🔋In Parallel

okay I'm going to show you how to properly wire dual batteries on an RV or camper or anything with a dual 12-volt batteries with two new batteries here I got my jumper wires now to build a couple of tools I'll be back here with these jumpers okay to build these jumpers I've got two roughly three foot chunks of six gauge power wire and I'm going to strip the ends and put these ring terminals on one of also got some heat-shrink here to mark which ones is the positive it's going to connect the two batteries so okay I got my two jumpers made one for the positive one for the negative which is going to connect the two batteries together take them out to the camper here okay I got my two batteries out here in the battery boxes front of the camper here see what I'm working on total twenty seven foot travel trailer got the two wires for the camper positive negative set them off to the side what you're going to do we got my jumpers here this is the nape okay what we did here is it took the two jumpers took our red for positive and we ran it over to the positive on the other battery we take our black jumper from the negative which runs over to the other negative now that they loop together they're still 12 volts we're going to do now you take your positive from the camp from the camper you hook it up one battery this here but your negative you hook to the other battery what this does I put them on wire up one battery and one wire to the other battery drains the batteries together to where they don't discharge the one faster than the other this is the proper way to hook up to batteries so once again positive jumper hooking the batteries together the negative jumper hooking the batteries together your negative off of one battery when your to the camper your positive off of the other battery to the camper to do parking out there a little bit because they're loose still give everything a tighten here that's all there is to it you just want to make sure that your jumpers are a bigger wire your jumper wire I've got six gauge is bigger than what the campers running you don't want your wire for your jumper smaller than the camper they'll heat up as long as they're bigger you're okay and that is pretty much it not much to it of course I got my lids off to put back on and I'm ready to go you also want your batteries to be the same age you want to buy them at the same time if you got a good better and a bad battery you're only as good as your bad battery and it will take out your new battery so pretty easy but let's how you do it thank you please like some subscribe you

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Id: 07RDFtsE7pk

Length: 3min 53sec (233 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 06 2017