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Heelshock
Explorer
Sep 05, 2013

The battery that came with my travel trailer THE battery?

I've learned quite a bit about battery maintenance recently...at the expense of my Exide 24MDP. It's time to replace it. In fact, my plan is to use 2 batteries in parallel to help in our dry camping...
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dclark1946
Explorer
Sep 07, 2013
pianotuna wrote:
Hi,

It may give you about 10 amp-hours per day. Parasitic loads are generally in the 36 amp-hours per day range.

It may be, that in bright sunshine with perfect solar conditions the unit will power the parasitic loads for perhaps 3 hours a day. That may provide a "rest" period for the battery bank.


You have some big parasites on your rig. Our trailer pulls a little less than 0.7A with fridge and water heater on so that is about 17 AH for 24 hours.

Dick

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