Dry camping with one 12 volt battery.
Does anyone know how long one 12 volt battery will carry the refrigerator while dry camping, without recharging with the generator?' Thanks for your reply Jim
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tenbear wrote:
The refrig and various detectors in my MH use about 18AH in 24 hours. Depending on your battery, it could have a capacity in the 100AH range. A rule of thumb says you should not discharge your battery beyond the 50% point so that would give you 50AH available. That would give you 2.77 days.
If you have a bigger battery, or choose to discharge it beyond 50%, you could go a longer time.
Confirmed. We have a Norcold 8 cuft. Left trailer with fridge on, plus Lp alarm etc only, ambient temps 80F day/60F night (approx.) four and a half days, down 75AH on the Trimetric.
Comes to 17 AH/day.
The propane burner sprayer is the culprit Takes 0.5amps when burning, so it is all down to time on in 24 hrs how may AH that is. You can do the math to see how much time in 24hrs ours was on to get that 17AH figure. ("The easy solution is left to the student") :)
