formulas for energy audit?
Getting ready to a long trip next summer with a few nights boon docking and thinking generator, battery bank, inverters etc and know I need to do an energy audit for my trailer. Trying to put togethe...
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Hi,
And what was the specific gravity of this fully charged battery? Or resting voltage? (i.e. sitting for 24 hours with no charging and no loads?)
And what was the specific gravity of this fully charged battery? Or resting voltage? (i.e. sitting for 24 hours with no charging and no loads?)
dddire wrote:pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
Unless you have beefed up the charging path, very little will be sent to the "house" battery bank from the alternator. Think BIG fat wire (#4?).
With a small battery bank it is better to do closer to 150 watts of panels for each 100 amp-hours of storage. With that small a bank, Keurig is going to be a gen set run.
We have run the gp24 down to about half a couple times, then by the time we've got home, it's full. When the brake control/7 pin was put in, I mentioned I wanted the ability to makre sure it charged the house battery and the tech response was "nothing to worry about"... and I guess I never really thought about it after that. lol
