Batteries in new Forest River Heritage Glen
Hi All- We'll be caravaning cross country in February with friends who have a new Forest River Heritage Glen with a residential fridge. We like to stay at Cracker Barrels en route, but I'm not sure ...
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How are the batteries getting recharged during the day? A typical trailer seven-wire connection doesn't provide a lot of charging power, and very likely would not fully recharge them and keep up with the fridge while driving, which means you're probably looking at more than a single night's worth of usage.
Anyhow, a typical residential fridge uses somewhere around 1 kWh per day, more or less, or 100 Ah per 24 hours. For an overnight stop, I would expect two batteries in good shape (regardless of whether they are 12V or 6V) to be able to keep up with it and run the furnace moderately for a single night, but probably not a vast amount more. That's a very rough estimate, of course, not at all a precise calculation.
I think I saw here that often the batteries are installed by the dealer rather than the manufacturer; all they'd put in is something adequate to safely get the trailer to the dealer (i.e. sized to operate the breakaway brake system and not much more).
Anyhow, a typical residential fridge uses somewhere around 1 kWh per day, more or less, or 100 Ah per 24 hours. For an overnight stop, I would expect two batteries in good shape (regardless of whether they are 12V or 6V) to be able to keep up with it and run the furnace moderately for a single night, but probably not a vast amount more. That's a very rough estimate, of course, not at all a precise calculation.
I think I saw here that often the batteries are installed by the dealer rather than the manufacturer; all they'd put in is something adequate to safely get the trailer to the dealer (i.e. sized to operate the breakaway brake system and not much more).
