Boondocking and working with no electricity
Hey all, obligatory "just started fulltiming" (class C Coachmen leprechaun 32 ft) and we have been thinking about boondocking with the weeks that we have to be away from a thousand trails campgrounds....
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smarty wrote:
We boondock exclusively. You will be surprised to learn how long you will have to run you genny to charge your house battery to full every day.
Assuming typical lead acid batteries, very true (and I bet that's what the OP has). The problem is when at 50%, you can dump quite a few amps into them but as you get up around 80%, the batteries, simply won't accept as many amps...slowly tapering down until the last 5-10% takes hours at a very slow charge rate.
That said, it's not hard or expensive to tie in an extra battery or two, largely negating the issue. Then you cycle thru 50-80% charge fairly quickly.
A bigger question as summer approaches is where will you be? If you are up in the mountains where it never gets very hot, you are golden. If you are somewhere where it gets hot, you have to figure in if you will want air/con and that isn't practical off batteries.
