Recommended Dry-Camping Mods to a Small TT
Thanks everyone for their thoughtful and informative posts on the site...I've enjoyed and benefited from them immensely! I'd greatly appreciate your thoughts regarding the following: We're loo...
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Thanks, Francesca! I should have been a little bit more specific in terms of our anticipated usage.
(There will be 4 of us...2 adults and our 2 children. My wife and I will effectively conserve batteries, water, etc...but with 2 kids under 10, it's predictable that the water pump will get left "on" at some point...that someone will stay up reading a little later at night...that someone will permit the hot water tank to "cycle" until I notice and turn it off...etc. Small draws on the battery.)
If one 20 lb LP is sufficient for you for a full week even in the winter, then I think that one tank is sufficient for our purposes.
I don't have the same level of confidence in our ability to conserve the 12V battery. Having "been there" before...what would you recommend as an upgrade to the DC power supply? Support & re-charge a single battery via solar? Double up the battery? Double it up into one larger DC bank...or keep it separated into two? Etc.
Thanks again! :)
(There will be 4 of us...2 adults and our 2 children. My wife and I will effectively conserve batteries, water, etc...but with 2 kids under 10, it's predictable that the water pump will get left "on" at some point...that someone will stay up reading a little later at night...that someone will permit the hot water tank to "cycle" until I notice and turn it off...etc. Small draws on the battery.)
If one 20 lb LP is sufficient for you for a full week even in the winter, then I think that one tank is sufficient for our purposes.
I don't have the same level of confidence in our ability to conserve the 12V battery. Having "been there" before...what would you recommend as an upgrade to the DC power supply? Support & re-charge a single battery via solar? Double up the battery? Double it up into one larger DC bank...or keep it separated into two? Etc.
Thanks again! :)
