battery charging when boon docking
What is the best way to get a good substantial charge while boon docking with a 5th wheel without running your generator for a long time to run converter
Forum Discussion
PopBeavers wrote:
The consensus was to use the generator in the morning to bring the charge up to 80 percent with the generator. Then let the solar panels do whatever they could do.
Using the generator to charge to a level higher than 80 percent is a waste of gas for the generator. It will take too long to top off the batteries using the generator. The solar panels at least have no operating cost.
Of course, you need to have a way to measure when you have reached the 80 percent mark.
PopBeavers is correct.
without unnecessarily spending a lot of money, this is about it...
solar.
but before the solar array, a good quality multi-stage converter/charger hsould be installed to give the generator and the batteries the best chance to do their job.... a properly sized solar array is unquestionably the best upgrade a chronic boondocker could do for themselves and their RV batteries...
