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How Do I Connect 4 Six Volt Batteries To My 12 Volt RV House Battery System

by Rob Ravenstine
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CONNECTING DEEP-CYCLE BATTERIES TO YOUR RV’S HOUSE BATTERY SYSTEM

CONNECTING DEEP-CYCLE BATTERIES TO YOUR RV’S HOUSE BATTERY SYSTEM

I need a diagram of how to hookup 4-6 volt deep cycle batteries for a 12 volt system?

Thank You
Rob Ravenstine

ANSWER: Hi Rob, I have included two diagrams. The first one is the one you requested on hooking up 4 six volt batteries to your RV's House Battery system. The second one is for those folks that want to hook up 2 six volt batteries to their RV House Battery system.

Hooking up 4 six volt batteries to House Battery System

hooking up 4 six volt batteries

You might also want to take a look at the video below to see how easy it is to setup the house batteries properly.

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Hooking up 2 six volt batteries to house battery system
Two 6 volt batteries wired in series diagram

For more information on why you should use 6 volt deep cycle batteries as house batteries in your RV, you should read my answer to: Should I Use Six Volt Deep Cycle Batteries as House Batteries in My RV?.

I hope that this information has been helpful to you.

Do you have any suggestions or comments on this topic? You can add them to this page by clicking on the "Click Here To Post Comments" link located near the bottom of this page.

Happy RVing

RVing Al

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starstarstarstarstar 		Adding a second set of 6 volt batteries
by: Anonymous

I( want to add another set of 6 volt batteries to my truck camper. How important is it the wire length to be the same ? I have to add the batteries about 10' from the current set, is this going to ba problem?
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starstarstarstarstar 		Wire size
by: LTroske

What is the recommendation for wire Guage to be ised to wire batteries together and also to wire to system?
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by: Anonymous

This article covers everything, except why you would want to hook up four batteries instead of just one......

Note from RVing Al: You should read the article Should I Use Six Volt Deep Cycle Batteries as House Batteries in My RV? that I refer to in my answer above, it explains why you want to use 6 volt deep cycle batteries as your RV's house batteries. Hope this helps.
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by: Anonymous

Batteries in series adds voltage. Batteries in parallel just gives extra amps. Series is taking 2 batteries and tyin a pos and neg together. Hook your leads to the pos of one battery and the neg of other uses in series. To use 4 batteries just jumper over to the second set of batteries. Pos 2 pos, neg 2 neg just as shown in the 4 6 volt diagram.
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by: Mr.Big Dog

How to connect 4 six volt batteries on a 2003 American eagle rv? fusion
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starstarstarstarstar 		Why does the co propane detector sound off?
by: Lou

I hooked up two more six volt batteries in my trailer, everything works fine except the co propane detector now sounds off, not as if there's a leak but as if there's an electrical problem, a beep every 30 seconds or so. I put another detector in and it does the same thing? Any ideas?
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by: AnonymoRJ

your double six volt battery connection doesn't show where the power comes into the first battery. Where is the power in? What terminal?
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starstarstarstarstar 		Batteries are shown series/parallel
by: Mel

The diagram shows the batteries hooked 2 sets of 2 in series and both sets of 2 hooked in parallel.
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by: Stump

I need a diagram that shows wiring and configuration for 4 six volt house batteries in a 2005 Holiday Rambler Neptune. My batteries are in two rows, two in each row, side by side.
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by: Bill Small

I saw the diagram that was posted on hooking up 4 6 volt batteries to the RV. I was wondering if there is any advantage to hooking up my 4 6 volt batteries either in series or paraellel. On the diagram is that paraellel???

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