Millis OTR journal

Since when is the Cville shop closed on Saturday???

 

If you have food in your fridge you ought a remove it if you're going home. But if you forget to do that and leave your fridge on, it's no biggie. I've done it several times. Your alarm will go off in your absence. Then, your truck will shut down all power to electrical outlets, fridge, and inverter. It'll hold back enough juice to get your truck started, and that's it. At that point you'll only have an issue if your truck is sitting for an extended period of time. That reserve juice may not be enough. If it's winter time, you can count on needing a jump. This is where an APU is nice. I can essentially jump my truck with my car even if the batteries are fully discharged. If you're an O/O it's a real good idea to get rid of the stock batteries and get some marine batteries. Best investment I made so far in this truck.

 

You'll probably never hear that alarm unless you're in your truck running the Espar in the winter. And that'll only be the fault of the batteries. Standard is 925 CCA. I've been told by several folks at Millis that they are now putting in 800 CCA batteries. You won't get more than 5 hours out of that heater and the batteries will wear out very quickly. Pass. Hence the deep charge marine batteries. Considering what it is that they do, the cost is a very small increase. Gotta love bean counters.

 

What do I know, man. I'm just a dumb trucker.

 

It's an absolute certainty that the batteries die faster. Stock batteries are glorified car batteries. They have zero capacity for discharge. They will die quickly because of what we do. These are what I have.