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:
Right, 50 Amp-hours. I just missed typing in the zero.
LED lights all around.
Heat is generally set at 50 or 55 at night. Need to work on getting the kids to jump out of bed early and turn up the heat (and make coffee).
We have a thick polyester blanket to block the cab.
Reflectix on all windows.
We have a Catalytic heater that we use before we go to bed (Mr Heater).
Always leave home with fully charge batteries.
For the most part, I am only looking to camp for up to 4 days, not for long periods of time. So based on what I am hearing from everyone, my system is probably not ideal, but will probably work. Upgrading the converter was key, since the old converter was only charging at 5 Amps.
Worst case, we all huddle around the dog for heat.
Just remember to charge fully which may be your biggest issue. Last dry camping trip it took me about about 4 hours of generator time to get to ~90% charge after a night of furnace running.
