First time dry camping this weekend
We are heading out tomorrow for a weekend of dry camping. This will be our first time doing it. To prepare for dry camping, I have switched out about half of our lighting to LED. I have enough to do a...
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Tvov wrote:
I wouldn't worry too much about the battery power level dropping immediately... that just means it is not at "full" charge. When you think about it, it makes sense. With a fully charged battery, just turning on one light will quickly bring the battery under full charge, even if a little bit. When we dry camp, the battery "drops" to 2/3 charge on the first night, but then stays there for 2-3 days under normal dry camping use.
With more dry camping experience, you will learn how long your particular electrical system will last on battery.
That's what I figured out about it and the whole panel including water and tank level.
Since we were able to run the generator, we did just about an hour or so the entire trip. Made us feel better at least. Lol.
I didn't have the battery chart with the percentage levels on it while camping. I couldn't remember exactly what they were and we had no cell phone reception for me to pull it up. Saturday evening we were in town and got a reception. I pulled it up on my iPhone and copied it to my photo album. So now I have it all the time. My wife suggested we print it out and laminate it and keep in the camper which we will do as well.
