Camping w/o battery

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   Is it safe to plug into shore power and operate without having a battery installed?
Appreciate your help. 

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Nomad2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2017 Location: Iowa Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Topic: Camping w/o battery Posted: 10 Jul 2020 at 11:56am
	Is it safe to plug into shore power and operate without having a battery installed? Appreciate your help.
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StephenH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6417	Posted: 10 Jul 2020 at 12:21pm
	Only if you are sure that the positive cable for the battery will not contact the frame. You would have some fireworks if it did. However, it is better to have a battery.
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furpod Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128	Posted: 10 Jul 2020 at 4:38pm
	It would also be very unsafe, and in most jurisdictions, illegal to tow without a battery installed.

podwerkz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 Mar 2019 Location: Texas Online Status: Offline Posts: 966	Posted: 10 Jul 2020 at 4:55pm
	furpod is, of course, referring to the battery operated electric brakes during a break-away event. If there is no battery, those brakes wont activate during an accidental separation.
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lostagain Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Sep 2016 Location: Quaker Hill, CT Online Status: Offline Posts: 2595	Posted: 10 Jul 2020 at 6:04pm
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mcarter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419	Posted: 10 Jul 2020 at 6:14pm
	Wondering why you would want to do this? Aside from the towing issue, which is a big deal. If you are not properly equipped, if you lose shore power, you're in a hard sided tent.
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offgrid Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290	Posted: 11 Jul 2020 at 8:32am
	The converter is able to provide the 12V electrical requirements of the trailer if you are plugged in and there is no battery. The batteries are a dealer installed option. Towing laws in many but not all states do require breakaway brakes. The language about how long they need to stay energized varies. Some say an "adequate period of time". MD says 15 minutes. I didn't check every state. Your brakes take about 12A so 15 minutes would be only 4 amphours. So, if you were always camping on hookups and wanted the smallest possible battery and the minimum legal breakaway brake function say for MD a little bitty motorcycle battery would do. After you lose your trailer do remember to put chocks under the wheels before you get distracted trying to explain what happened to the highway patrol though.
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