inverter question
Do you leave your inverter on after turning off the TV for the night when dry camping or do you, or should you turn the inverter off.
Forum Discussion
The idea in the Mootorhomes is the same with RV Trailers to never let your batteries get down below their 50% charge state which is around 12.0VDC. If you have enough battery capacity to not let that happen then by all means leave your INVERTER on.
When I am running on my batteries I keep a good eye on the DC VOLTAGE PANEL and when it get to 12.0VDC then I start shutting things down. We RV trailer guys usually have to wait until 8AM the next morning before we can use our generators to re-charge our batteries...
If you are continuing to drop your batteries below the 50% charge state then I would power down things. Your batteries will not perform well for you if you constantly let them get below the 50% charge state and not get re-charged right away. You will eventually have to replace them or suffer big time poor performance.
I suspect your battery bank is a large one so do the tricks of the trade to take care of them. Worse nightmare for us is when it goes dark on us at 10:30 at night haha...
It would be neat to have an alarm go off when the battery DC voltage drops to around 12.0VDC like the BOGART Trimetric TM-2025-RV monitor does.
Roy Ken
When I am running on my batteries I keep a good eye on the DC VOLTAGE PANEL and when it get to 12.0VDC then I start shutting things down. We RV trailer guys usually have to wait until 8AM the next morning before we can use our generators to re-charge our batteries...
If you are continuing to drop your batteries below the 50% charge state then I would power down things. Your batteries will not perform well for you if you constantly let them get below the 50% charge state and not get re-charged right away. You will eventually have to replace them or suffer big time poor performance.
I suspect your battery bank is a large one so do the tricks of the trade to take care of them. Worse nightmare for us is when it goes dark on us at 10:30 at night haha...
It would be neat to have an alarm go off when the battery DC voltage drops to around 12.0VDC like the BOGART Trimetric TM-2025-RV monitor does.
Roy Ken
