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John___Angela
Explorer
Oct 15, 2013

Interesting results of power use audit when dry camping.

So we have been dry camping for about a week in fairly lousy and cold weather (read below freezing every night. So as we have to be here for a few more days I decided to see what sucks the most power...
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JiminDenver
Explorer II
Oct 15, 2013
I was surprised at how much our 15 inch LCD/DVD combo used this last trip. I converted it to 12v and was running it with a 35ah gel cell. I ended up needing to charge that everyday. That battery usually runs a portable DVD player or radio and charges phones a whole trip.

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