You can buy fancy electronic battery isolators for prices up to and over 100. If you are going to be at a campground then you wont need much battery power.

Adding A Battery
Adding batteries to rv. First disconnect the old battery by unscrewing the negative and positive battery. The first step to powering up your van camper is to install secondary batteries that are charged off your vans alternator. We already had two trojan t 1275. Step 2 disconnect the old batteries. A lot will also depend on where you will be camping. Each cell can be from 2v to 6 v.
You will first need to decide what kind of batteries to buy. Step 3 attach the. Pre delivery inspection pdi about. As an example two group 27 12 volt batteries wired in parallel will equal about 210 amps of storage capacity. Front storage bay old battery setup and wiring. When using 6 volt batteries they must be added in pairs.
How to install dual rv batteries step 1 decide which batteries to buy. If you can fit three or more group 27 12 volt batteries then go for that. As wedry camp about 80 of the time we decided it was time to add an additional battery to our 5th wheel. These batteries are linked in series to form an overall 12 v battery. If your energy use. Before adding the extra solar ive decided to first upgrade the battery bank with 4 fresh six volt batteries with a total capacity of 464 ah.
You want these secondary batteries to be separated electrically from the alternator when the motor is not running. July 25 2017. However four batteries do add to rv weight overall. Two trojan t 105 6 volt batteries wired in series will yield about 225 amps of storage. So use them only if needed. A battery bank is a way of adding multiple batteries together doing so either increases the available voltage or the available amps.
Rv with the tanners. Rv batteries in series creating batteries in series will keep the amps the same but will multiply the voltage. Adding a 3rd battery to our rv. As an rv battery bank upgrade im removing the 2 old six volt trojans and single 12 volt battery and simplifying things into one 4 battery bank.