Hey gentlemen; OP here. Spirited discussion? The reason that the question came about was that I had always put my RV into storage after disconnecting the house battery negative to avoid any parasitic loss. It seemed to be totally effective. My PW has a battery box under the rear storage compartment. So limited that when I replaced the existing group 24 battery with a group 27 I had to cut off the carrier strap ears to make it fit. It does....but there's zero room in the compartment.
So......In adding the Victron battery monitor I have to place the shunt outside the battery box. Doable running a line from the battery negative to the shunt and back to the original connections to the battery.
So......I thought: Why not add a dedicated cutoff switch in this loop to accomplish the same thing I was doing when I manually disconnected the negative leads before going into storage.
Am I correct in assuming that...IF what I was doing before was a safe, workable way of disconnecting the battery for storage....isn't interjecting the CO switch in the manner described doing the same thing?
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