Help battery issues/solar panel
Any help would be appreciated and sorry if the questions are stupid! I have just purchased an Aliner Sport My dealer was going to charge my battery before our camping trip but forgot. The 1 hour to...
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I know that the propane detector will scream at you if your voltage drops too low which is pretty much what you have going on with that toasted battery. It going off with the fan is kinda scary but could be that at that point the voltage was too low even for the alarm.
Who knows what capacity solar panel they gave you so I can't say if it will keep up with your power use off grid but I'm pretty sure it is a no. It is certainly better than no solar panel though.
You get the fridge cold before leaving for a trip by turning it on at least 24 hours before leaving.
As far as that whole battery thing:
As you found, the 1 hour drive was not enough to charge the battery. When you used it anyhow without hooking up the solar panels, you put a hurting on it. The panels by themselves don't seem very powerful and the battery had nothing left in it to take over when you exceeded their capacity when you tried to run 2 12v systems at once.
Any chance you could report any model numbers or anything from the solar panels?
Who knows what capacity solar panel they gave you so I can't say if it will keep up with your power use off grid but I'm pretty sure it is a no. It is certainly better than no solar panel though.
You get the fridge cold before leaving for a trip by turning it on at least 24 hours before leaving.
As far as that whole battery thing:
As you found, the 1 hour drive was not enough to charge the battery. When you used it anyhow without hooking up the solar panels, you put a hurting on it. The panels by themselves don't seem very powerful and the battery had nothing left in it to take over when you exceeded their capacity when you tried to run 2 12v systems at once.
Any chance you could report any model numbers or anything from the solar panels?
