winter storage

[nhjones]

jonesy here. lookiing to store my unit for the winter (about 6 months). here in NH. am looking for opinions as to pulling the house batteries and trickle charging thru the winter then reinstall. also, would you store with a full fuel tank
2013 Itaska Cambria 30c

[TourNut]

It's best to store with full tank of gas to give water condensation no room to form , which then sinks under the gas. also put in StaBil to preserve fuel, run engine with StaBil distributed throughout gas tank , to get Stabil in the fuel lines' gas . Similar care to generator , but best to run generator dry of gas in float chamber if you have shut-off valve for it.

Where ever your batteries are , check on trickle charger during winter to make sure charger hasn't died on you , which doesn't help your batteries a bit. Especially the chinese chargers in the little black plastic boxes , I went through a bunch of them over the years on all my vehicles ( 6 ), I eventually got to the place where they all got replaced by Battery Tender -Plus w/ the 10 year warranty - you can find on-line for about ~$45.

[Tombsy]

In our cold Canadian winter I pull the batteries and leave them on maintaining chargers. I’m using Genius chargers on 9 different batteries, AGM, SLA, and LiFe from the mh and boat.

[nhjones]

i use that tender on the bike battery. thanks again

[OLYLEN]

Are you going to excersise the Gen once a month as suggested in the manual? Do you have electric available to the RV While be stored? If so a timer on the power to allow charging some each day. Also the chassis battery?

LEN