How to Increase Battery Capacity
After spending 10+ years studying RVs prior to buying one I’m amazed at what I still don’t know! Turns out the cure for that is this amazing forum. The latest issue I’m lost about is a LOT more ...
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DrewE wrote:
You can get two decent (not top-of-the-line) flooded 6V golf cart batteries from e.g. Sam's Club or Costco for less than $200 total. That would probably give you two to three times the usable power as your existing battery, assuming you have or can make physical room to replace it with them.
The OP's current G24 battery is worth ~ 75 AH, 50% of which is usable. Two 6 volt GC-2s in series are worth ~ 220 AH, half usable, and sufficient for most to get through 3 or 4 nights of dry camping, particularly if he also carries his existing G24 in the back of his truck as a spare, adding another usable 35 - 40 AHs to the mix. :B
If the fridge has a switch for climate control, make sure it's turned off.
And as mentioned also, if the fridge doesn't have a switch to disable it's climate control heating element than either disconnect the wire that feeds it or better still add a switch yourself. Pics showing how I did this are in my gallery.
