Our 2004 Privilege 435 Confianza (Connie for short) came equipped with traditional lead-acid batteries—5 100ah for the house bank and 2 starter batteries. We had a Northern Lights generator that we felt had roughly a million hours on it and was acting up. Our two stock alternators would give us some charge, but quite slowly. The problem with charging lead acid is that it takes forever to reach full charge because of the absorption phase.
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