Increasing battery capacity
Is there anything else required to installing 2 6 volt deep cycle batteries other than just removing my old battery, and making sure the 2 new ones are wired in series correctly? Will my current char...
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Too many variables here..
2-6 volt batts... 230 ah's. You can run them to 50% so about 115 ah's you have.
Two TV's @100 watts = 16.6 amps. Plus your other gadgets and such. Lets figure 25 amps an hr.
You can run your stuff about 4 hours.
Plus losses from your inverter and such, but lets say 4 hours.
Now you need to charge those batts back with what you took out.What converter do you have in your camper? If its a WFCO I doubt it will go into bulk mode 14.4 charging. It most likely will stay in 13.6 mode as these WFCO's are problematic.
Plus the small wire you may have from converter to batts you may be lucky to see 20 amps charging.
It would seem 5 hrs charge time if the converter stayed @ 20 amps, but its going to taper.
Moral of story with what you may have and your high load use it will take a while to charge those batts back up. And two more batts ( 4) will take longer if you run them down 50%.
Of course you can run longer say 8 hours with your load and 4 batts..
Do you have the room for said batts?
Are you willing to spend money to upgrade converter charging section and possibly wireing?
Do you want to spend money on solar to help the cause?
Cheap way out would be an external charger run off the generator.And if your going to spend that money you may as well get something you can mount close to batts and charge from that device and be in more control with a charge wizard to force into bulk,
But possibly you have an IOTA converter?
We dont know..
You can dump 70 amps into two 6 volts and 130 amps into 4.
An 80 amp charger here mounted close to batts will charge at the preferred 14.8 volts and net you the amps you want.
http://www.bestconverter.com/PD-9280C-148-80-Amp-RV-ConverterCharger_p_620.html#.Ww9nvEgvyUk
But make sure you want to boondock before you spend the $$$. Some deep 6 the idea after a few attempts and realize its easier to just plug into a pedestal.
This was the beggining stages of my set up.
I have two 280 watt panels now, and a different 40 amp solar charge controller...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD5cpclHjqA
2-6 volt batts... 230 ah's. You can run them to 50% so about 115 ah's you have.
Two TV's @100 watts = 16.6 amps. Plus your other gadgets and such. Lets figure 25 amps an hr.
You can run your stuff about 4 hours.
Plus losses from your inverter and such, but lets say 4 hours.
Now you need to charge those batts back with what you took out.What converter do you have in your camper? If its a WFCO I doubt it will go into bulk mode 14.4 charging. It most likely will stay in 13.6 mode as these WFCO's are problematic.
Plus the small wire you may have from converter to batts you may be lucky to see 20 amps charging.
It would seem 5 hrs charge time if the converter stayed @ 20 amps, but its going to taper.
Moral of story with what you may have and your high load use it will take a while to charge those batts back up. And two more batts ( 4) will take longer if you run them down 50%.
Of course you can run longer say 8 hours with your load and 4 batts..
Do you have the room for said batts?
Are you willing to spend money to upgrade converter charging section and possibly wireing?
Do you want to spend money on solar to help the cause?
Cheap way out would be an external charger run off the generator.And if your going to spend that money you may as well get something you can mount close to batts and charge from that device and be in more control with a charge wizard to force into bulk,
But possibly you have an IOTA converter?
We dont know..
You can dump 70 amps into two 6 volts and 130 amps into 4.
An 80 amp charger here mounted close to batts will charge at the preferred 14.8 volts and net you the amps you want.
http://www.bestconverter.com/PD-9280C-148-80-Amp-RV-ConverterCharger_p_620.html#.Ww9nvEgvyUk
But make sure you want to boondock before you spend the $$$. Some deep 6 the idea after a few attempts and realize its easier to just plug into a pedestal.
This was the beggining stages of my set up.
I have two 280 watt panels now, and a different 40 amp solar charge controller...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD5cpclHjqA
