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rcyoung3
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May 18, 2018

RV batteries...how many?

The wife and I are getting a Damon Intruder 2001 RV in a week (36 ft). It has a 7000W gas generator.

Here's the catch...and the reason for my post....the wife has been in an electric wheelchair (which uses qty 2 12v 35A batteries ( maybe 120V 2A for 6 hr/day to recharge) for many many years. She also uses an oxygen concentrator (uses 125V 4A basically 24x7).

I am trying to determine how many "house" batteries i will need in the RV to cover our needs. The RV comes with 2 "golf cart" batteries (6V 200AHr), of unknown "quality". However, her medical equipment demands a considerable amount of power on a daily basis as noted above.

Now we plan to spend 99,9% of the time in parks with electric power initially, but I learned many decades ago to always have backups and even backups to my backups.

If one were using the "standard" amount of electrical ( what the average RVer would use) routinely, plus the extra outlined above, does anyone have a "guesstimate" as to how many batteries i should have in the RV ( assuming they are about 200 AHr 6V) for at least one day, if not 2-3 days (just to soothe my paranoia)?