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Johnny_Dearborn
Explorer
Dec 01, 2014

Not Enough Juice! (Need Help with Coach Battery)

I like to do a lot of untethered camping with my Class C. I'm often parked in a forest service campground, a parking lot in some small town or on some street parked in front of a friend's house. My ri...
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rjstractor
Nomad
Dec 01, 2014
When I had my C it had a 50 watt solar panel,and I found that the panel by itself did a pretty good job of maintaining the "hotel load"-fridge (even running on propane it draws DC power), LPG detector, lighting, etc. Your laptop power draw is fairly low, but the furnace is a big draw of DC power. I'm not sure which converter you have, but mine had a 45 amp converter that easily handled my DC needs when plugged in. Converting your lighting to LED may help, but it's not cheap.

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