Best way to watch movies while dry camping
DH and I are planning our LONGEST ever dry camping adventure at Cades Cove TN in the Smokies just after Thanksgiving...8 NIGHTS! I believe our previous record was 5 nights. We have been doing this fo...
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We do ELKMONT alot doing the same thing... In our case however we have a pretty good battery bank and run just about everything we do at electric sites.
We then run the 2KW Generator the next morning which we are allowed to run our generator at ELKMONT and recharge our battery bank back up to the 90% charge state so we can do this all over again the next day/night run off the batteries.
We can do this for at least 12-14 days when we have to run our generator for over 12 hours to do a complete 100% battery bank charge otherwise we will do damage to the batteries. They will only do a 50% to 90% just so many times before they need to be charged up to their 100% charge state. Since the generator run time restrictions usually is not allowed to run this long of time continuous this is when we pack up and head for the house.
At both Cades Cove and ELKMONT the bath rooms all have 120VAC power. I have seen some campers leave a single battery and a battery charger plugged into the 120VAC receptacle in the bath house a few times. Campers can always figure out a way to keep going hehe... Have also seen a few extension cords running from the bath house to a tent setup too. They don't usually last long however as it probably is too easy for the maintenance folks to just follow the extension cord to the tent site haha...
Got to take care of your batteries...
Roy Ken
We then run the 2KW Generator the next morning which we are allowed to run our generator at ELKMONT and recharge our battery bank back up to the 90% charge state so we can do this all over again the next day/night run off the batteries.
We can do this for at least 12-14 days when we have to run our generator for over 12 hours to do a complete 100% battery bank charge otherwise we will do damage to the batteries. They will only do a 50% to 90% just so many times before they need to be charged up to their 100% charge state. Since the generator run time restrictions usually is not allowed to run this long of time continuous this is when we pack up and head for the house.
At both Cades Cove and ELKMONT the bath rooms all have 120VAC power. I have seen some campers leave a single battery and a battery charger plugged into the 120VAC receptacle in the bath house a few times. Campers can always figure out a way to keep going hehe... Have also seen a few extension cords running from the bath house to a tent setup too. They don't usually last long however as it probably is too easy for the maintenance folks to just follow the extension cord to the tent site haha...
Got to take care of your batteries...
Roy Ken
