Charging Camper Trailer battery

Submitted: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 20:58
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I am about to run Battery/starter cable through to rear of patrol to connect to Camper Battery via anderson plugs to charge camper battery whilst travelling

I have a duel battery system (Pirahna) and the question is should I connect the cable to the Starter Battery or the Auxillary battery
I will be running a laptop through inverter and GPS from auxillary battery in car via separate 6mm cable

The connection will only be left connected whilst travelling and disconnected when stopped for extended periods

I was thinking that by connecting through aux battery I will have some spike prtotection if trailer battery gets low on power

On the other hand I thought that I would get the best charge by connecting to the starter battery

I have a trailblazer fridge mounted on trailer all the time and the power is souced from a deep cycle Battery on trailer
Also Camp 12v lights also run off this battery

In the past I connected camper through 6mm cable that provides power to aux plugs in the car
I had a bridging cable to trailer through 2 pin clipsal 32v plugs

I have upgraded to B/starter cable to minimise voltage loss at trailer

Thanks in advance for replies

I am leaving for 7 week trip to Kimberly via birdsville on 1st july

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