Deep cycle or starter battery charging issues
I recenty moved from a class B to a small fiver. My old van had one deep cycle battery and I installed an isolator. This set up was good for several nights of light usage before I had to run the van t...
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Your best bet right now is to change to 6 volt golf cart batteries and a lot of them. Find a place to install at least 4 golf cart batteries. This joule give you at least 4 or 5 days of use with no furnace. Last year we camped for 4 days in cool weather. Meaning cloudy, one rain showers and the furnace on a lot. Using only my solar panels I was able to go the whole four days and only use the generator once the last day for a couple of hours. And YES your fifth wheel is a power hog compared to older RV's. everything takes power now days from the refer to the smoke detector to the gas sniffer. Heck I can remember back in the old days you could leave your car sit for months go out and hit the starter and it would crank. Try that today with the newer cars. All those computers take energy to keep running.
