Jump Start Battery
98% of the time we either have full hookups or are running the generator full time (NASCAR and Tailgating). However, occasionally (National Parks & Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta ie) there are quiet hour...
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RoyB wrote:
houstonstroker -Been camping this way off the power grids for the past few years and are pretty successful about it now... We run just about everything we run at a regular electric site except the Air Conditioner and the high wattage microwave unit.
Yup, I look back t how my parents did it in an old "Dreamer" cab-over camper on the back of an F-250. One 12-v "house" battery that lasted for a week to power a few lights and a water pump. No solar, no generator. Dad would just start up,the truck about every three or four days and let it idle for 15 minutes or so. Did that for years and years growing up.
How did we manage that without a power failure ever?????
Now with a single Honda generator and just one 12v deep cycle battery in my trailer, we last forever too. I throw the Honda on for about 2 hours on "eco mode" toward the evening hours and we last until the next day. I guess I'm just lucky. This is all done during the months that I don't need an air conditioner. In that case, twin Hondas are running with an external tank, all day/night long. (Boondocking).
