Solar panel overkill?

Almot wrote:

With items that you mentioned, your power drain looks too high if you are running a genny 2 hours and still losing charge. There must something else besides TV and furnace. Maybe you run microwave often, maybe countless cups on 1,500W coffee maker. Maybe "computer" - if this is a desktop, it draws A LOT more than laptop. You can reduce energy drain a lot by replacing the furnace with catalytic heater, getting energy-efficient LED TV and LED lights. Reducing it further would mean replacing or eliminating some of your kitchen gadgets - I won't go there.

Thanks for the reply. The only time we use an inverter is if I need to use our printer which is almost never. I charge the laptop with a 12 volt charger and our TV is about a 15" which runs off of 12 volt. Also charge a Nook tablet and
cell phones. Have already changed all the lights to LED and only use 1-2 at a time for probably a total of 4hrs daily. If we need the microwave I turn on the generator. If I run the generator at 3:00 pm for 2 hours and we don't run the furnace that night by the next morning the meter says 70-80%. That's without running the TV and the booster turned off, laptop plugged in for 3 hours and Nook running continuously. By what you are saying it sounds like something is not adding up. I am thinking that a few things might not be right including 1 self inflicted:

1. Replace batteries 4 years ago maybe they are getting weak?
2. Have a drain that I'm not aware of.
3. The self inflicted one - didn't hook up the meter correctly by running wire directly to batteries. I just installed it where it was convenient and grabbed the closest 12V wire. When I initially hooked it up it seemed close to being right when compared to the battery voltage however.
Any other thoughts?