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jaycocreek
Feb 28, 2017Explorer II
Jacocreek, how did you get by with just one battery?
All the lights are LED and we do use a catalytic heater when it is really cold, but normally we just run the furnace in the morning to warm it up and leave the stove burner on keeping the coffee and pot hot and the use of my wifes smelly candles instead of lights mostly.We also use AC/DC operated fans to move the air in or out when it's warm out or to blow smoke out.We replenish the battery daily off the gen set watching our evening DVD's.
We boondock almost 100% of the time where know one else camps so that noisy honda doesn't bother anyone.I always use a portable battery charger when charging...
We have been doing it for so many years we both correct the other on battery use.My wife lived in a forest service camper surveying for months at a time and I lived in one doing my outdoor work so we do know all about coming home to dead batteries or out of power in the middle of the night.
I read about having to have 6 volt batteries and solar power but I have never needed either,just a good quiet generator and common sense fixes most problems.
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