Buying a deep cycle battery
So I've been looking at deep cycle batteries and needless to say there are a lot of options. I drive a '78 Chevy Itasca 21' and I imagine my usage load all be relatively light, as there aren't too man...
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If you gots the room the two GC2 6VDC batteries is a great buy. This will give you over 200AHs of battery capacity and is great for those times when you may want to camp over night somewhere off the batteries. These GOLF CART batteries are built for outstanding performance having the large internal cores and gives you 25AMPS of 12VDC power for around 7 hours before discharging down to 0% charge state.
Two typical GP24 12VDC 85AH Interstate batteries will only give you 25AMPS of 12VDC power for around 4.6 hours of use for around the same Battery cost.
The rule of thumb for running the furnace blower is one nights use per battery. A typical Propane furnace blower will pull around 5-6AMPS DC Current. The automotive type lights in the trailer will each draw around 1AMP DC current. It all adds up pretty quick... You can't do much about the furnace blower but you can switch out all of the incandescent automotive type high current light bulbs for LED BOARDS. The savings in DC power for the same amount of light is around 80%. Thats alot...
Two typical GP24 12VDC 85AH Interstate batteries will only give you 25AMPS of 12VDC power for around 4.6 hours of use for around the same Battery cost.
The rule of thumb for running the furnace blower is one nights use per battery. A typical Propane furnace blower will pull around 5-6AMPS DC Current. The automotive type lights in the trailer will each draw around 1AMP DC current. It all adds up pretty quick... You can't do much about the furnace blower but you can switch out all of the incandescent automotive type high current light bulbs for LED BOARDS. The savings in DC power for the same amount of light is around 80%. Thats alot...
