Batteries in new Forest River Heritage Glen

garyemunson wrote:
I'm sure the dealer put a couple of "deep cycle" 12 volts in there. They are usually good for the 1st year or two. If you plan to dry camp, I suggest you budget for a couple 6 volt golf cart batteries from Costco or Sam's Club. You can spend more for AGMs and they will last longer/hold more charge but the golf carts are the sweet spot as far as bang for the buck. They will get you through a night of no hookups and last about 7 years doing that. Most people don't keep a particular RV long enough before upgrading to get the value out of AGMs (or LiIon).

Thanks. This will be our friends first attempt at any kind of dry camping as their camper is very new and has only been in one park with full hookups. They are reluctant to spend any money upgrading as they aren't convinced they need to. Apparently the power went out one early fall night in the park where they kept the camper, and they felt they had plenty of power from their batteries. They of course don't realize they were probably well below the 12 volt threshold on their batteries when the park power came back on.