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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mena661 wrote:
What's ridiculous about it? There are tons of people here with 4 6V's in their 5ers.
I'm with mena661 on this. I have four 6Vs in my small class A. As you add capacity, you increase the rate at which you can recharge and decrease the frequency that you need to recharge. Both of those let you minimize generator runtime, which the OP said was important. That's why I went to four 6Vs from two. It minimized gen runtime for me and had the advantage of reducing fuel usage, as I was charging at a higher average rate while the gen was running.
