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I have the FW factory installed Perko 1-2-ALL-OFF switch with 2 batteries. I just bought a new electronic batterycharger and need to know if I can just hook it up to one of the batteries and put the Perko switch on ALL to charge both at the same time?


2009 H200 w/all the options...
Langley, BC.
Canada

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RICK|2009 H200 5.0L MERC|2010 RAM 1500 LARAMIE
Beautiful Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

If you did as you described current would pass to both batteries. Probably be fine with trickle charger, but any larger amperage 'smart charger' battery charger could those features defeated - it's see both batteries as one large battery. So if you have one fully topped off battery and another that is depleted, the fully topped off battery could get over-charged. Better to connect the single bank charger directly to the depleted battery and make sure it's isolated from the topped off battery. Even better would be to go with a dual bank charger (of sufficient amperage) that could monitor and manage the batteries individually - even then you would not want the battery switch set to all.

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2007 Horizon 200
4.3L GXi/ SX 225 HP

+1...

What kind of battery charger did you buy?

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2002 Funship 214
VP 5.7 GX Si
2003 Tahoe