Battery Questions
We bought a camper last year, mainly for winter, boondock camping at Mt Bachelor in Oregon. After a scary experience, where the batteries died at 3 am when it was 10 deg F outside, I wanted to get a ...
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rvoregon wrote:
We replaced all of the lights with LED's (draw dropped from 1.5 Amps to 0.1 Amps per bulb). Blower on fan for heater draws about 5 Amps. So even if that is running 100% for 10 hours at night, that would be 5 Amp-hours. So 1 1/2 hours of running the generator in the AM should fix that.
And since the noise in the parking lot is loud when they are plowing snow, I can actually run the generator at night without anyone even noticing....
Running a 5A load for 10 hours consumes 50 Amp-hours, not 5 Amp-hours. It's current multiplied by time, measuring charge, not a rate of some sort. It would take perhaps three hours to recharge that 50 AH worth using the converter you have, I think, though there are a number of variables that enter in.
That said, the battery capacity you have should easily be sufficient to get through a cold night even without too much effort at conservation, provided the batteries are in decent condition and are starting out pretty well charged.
