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    Posted: 23 Oct 2016 at 4:02pm
Make sure the fridge is on propane, not battery, while driving. The 12V option almost guarantees little or no charging. The inverter can have a small residual draw even when not in use. Disconnect it or make sure it is truly off when not in use. Leave shore power connected for a full day between trips for a full charge. 200+ AH dual golfers should last days for usage as you describe.  
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I agree with furpod you have over 200 amp hours batteries and they may have not been fully charged when it was installed in your trailer. I would plug the trailer into AC and let onboard battery charger bring them to a fully charged state. If you have a volt meter you can check the voltage level
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Oct 2016 at 12:23pm
What was their charge state to begin with? "Charged while driving" doesn't help us much.. You could have a 200aH "needed charge" and in an hour your eX can only send 30 or so back there through the Bargman connector, and if running the fridge on 12v, it ate at least 10 of them..


I have tested our standby loads, and show 165mA, and we have a couple remote control additions that sit and listen for commands.. Your best bet would be to use a multimeter to see what your steady state draws are. It easy. Just disconnect a battery cable, pos or neg will work, set your DMM to mA/A, or whatever setting it has for current that is appropriate, make sure you are plugged into the leads that match the expected current (I always use the 10A range/inputs) Then put your DMM in-line with the battery and cable, as a "jumper". You can do this with everything turned off, to see what draws you have all the time, and with some stuff turned on to see how much it draws.. but be careful with that, you don't want to blow the fuse or worse, in your DMM.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Oct 2016 at 11:35am
Somehow,the blank post happened- sorry!!
We just purchased 2 new 6 volt golf cart batteries. After installing them, we drove for about an hour with the truck charging them. After using them for 1 day, the meter showed they were down to 12.2 volts. We used no lights(all solar powered lanterns), the furnace came on twice and the refrigerator was on propane. The only parasitic loads that I know of was the propane detector. We have no entertainment system. I do have a 400 watt inverter directly connected to the battery, but it was not in use. We did not use the water pump. We have a 20 watt PWM solar controller installed but we did not use it.
Does anybody have an idea why the batteries were weakened so quickly?
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