solar power & battery
i recently bought a brand new 2018 powerlite toy hauler and it comes with 160 watts solar power with 300 watts inverter. it also has cummins onan 4000 generator. The trailer has 1 battery only but ...
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time2roll wrote:
Stay with what you have until it proves inadequate. You can pick up a battery anytime.
theoldwizard1 wrote:
Concur ! Then get TWO 6V golf cart batteries.
Disagree, because the OP has a brand new trailer with a brand new battery. The number of times one may dry camp each season is irrelevant as it only takes one weekend without shore power to realize the limitations of a single battery. In fact, the OP hasn't even told us what that one battery is that he has but if it's a garden variety flooded G24 then the story is even worse because of it's limited capacity. Since this is a brand new battery I'd ask the dealer to take it back and allow the OP credit on 2 new matched batteries, either a pair of 6 volt GC-2s or a pair of 12 volt G31s, either set of which would offer ~ 220 amps of reserve capacity at the 20 Hr rate. While his 160 watts of solar may be marginal for this size of battery bank he can always improve that later if it proves necessary, in the meantime he always has his genset for recharging those batteries as may be required.
