Another battery question
Over the course of the next few months I really want to figure out how much juice I have in my batteries and what draws them down. We do a fair amount of boondocking so I would like to know timelines ...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
I went for 14 years with only solar, as far as camping goes. I mostly boondock. I did have a genny--but it was to run the block heater in winter time. I left it behind when camping. It failed and the replacement was no good. (mea culpa)
Then I switched to full time and I thought a genny was needed. Turns out I would have been better to do more solar. The new genny has run less than fifty hours in 10 months. Over 1/4 the run time is exercising it. (I.E. running it for no good reason).
Since I started full timing in Oct, I've not run the generator *once* except to exercise it.
But PT you also said you have been on shore power most of the winter. You are not making any sense, while being seized by this solar/no-gen Religion mania.
We use the gen for weekend camping off-grid in winter and the solar for off grid in summer. Sometimes in cloudy weather we also need the gen in summer. So what? Is God going to "get us" for that?
You have a nice gen, so use it (instead of shore power, or when solar can't keep up off grid.) You don't need to duplicate the gen with a bunch more solar and then never use the gen you just paid for. (Unless it is all part of some illogical Religion thing)
Balance, toujour the Balance! :)
