Battery power

Thermoguy wrote:

Igotaname wrote:
What has been your experience with battery back up with Bluetti, Jackery, Goal Zero? I am thinking of boondocking and think the quite power with solar would be good.

How long to you plan to boondock? The batteries in your trailer might allow you to go 2 or 3 days without doing anything. Maybe you need to add a second, 3rd or 4th battery to get the job done. If your only going a couple days, you might not need to do anything, if you want to go a week, you might need to add something. You can get by with far less than those units, they include the battery which you have...

I treat boondocking like an extension of tent camping. I only use power when I need it and only mostly use lights, fridge, and water. We don't sit in the trailer with the lights on at night, we sit by the fire with the lights off. Just saying, you might not need much power to get through a nice long weekend trip.

The only thing I would add to this very good post is if you have tent camped in the past and have minimal battery requirements you would be wasting your money on Jackery or solar. I dry camp 95% of the time and never run out of battery power in a week worth of camping. Water has always been the limiting factor, after 7 days I am almost out of water but my 2 6v GC batteries are still at 50% SOC or higher. If you have a single 12 battery replace it with 2 6v golf cart batteries wired in series and you will have plenty of power for a weeks worth of camping. What is the size of your FW tank?