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bdhoun
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Feb 16, 2018

dry camping

Last year we dry camped for 3 days/nights. We have a champion 2000W inverter generator, and a group 31 battery, and i assume a WFCO converter. We handled that ok. I did figure out that the charging relay on the F150 to the 7 pin was plugged into the wrong port so i had never been charging while driving.

this year we will be dry camping for a week. Electrical use will be the propane detector, led lights, radio, water pump, defrost on the fridge. We don't have an inverter.

My question, do you think running the generator for a 2-3 hours a day will be enough? or am i going to kill my group 31?

I've been thinking of getting a 2nd grp 31, or just take along my 10 year old grp 27.

If i upgrade charging, should i just get the progressive dynamics? But we would only dry camp for no longer than a week once per summer. Or i could get a 20 amp battery charger that i could run off the gennie at the same time and keep the wfco. I currently have a 10amp.

Just trying to get the best bang for the buck.
  • SoundGuy wrote:
    bdhoun wrote:
    Just trying to get the best bang for the buck.


    Although forum pundits will no doubt be quite willing to spend your $$$ with all sorts of recommendations clearly your "best bang for the buck" is to just use what you already have, especially since you already have a spare G27 you can drag along with you as well for back up. Keep in mind also that as an American based forum most recommendations will be based on US pricing from those who don't understand just how expensive ALL this stuff is up here in Canada. :R


    Does Canadian Tire load test batteries? Not sure how to determine if my old Grp 27 is actually up to the task.
  • bdhoun wrote:
    Just trying to get the best bang for the buck.


    Although forum pundits will no doubt be quite willing to spend your $$$ with all sorts of recommendations clearly your "best bang for the buck" is to just use what you already have, especially since you already have a spare G27 you can drag along with you as well for back up. Keep in mind also that as an American based forum most recommendations will be based on US pricing from those who don't understand just how expensive ALL this stuff is up here in Canada. :R

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