US Battery "finishing" charge recommendation

RJsfishin wrote:
To whom it may concern,....
Suppose for a minute,..... you didn't have a hydrometer, and you never read any of these battery threads, and you were dry camped out here in the desert for a couple months just using your genset...and maybe a little solar help, and you learned to live w/ a bit less battery capacity because of the under charging, just like thousands of us are doing out here right now I mite add, and after doing this for many years, you find out these same batteries last 8-10 yrs ? What then ??
Ok, you (and maybe me) just like the technicalities of it all, and that's just fine. I like reading about it, and experiencing it too, only difference is, I take it for what it is, and what its going to be, and knowing there ain't much I'm going to do to fix it, but at the same time knowing that when I get home, and the PD converter takes over full time, everything will be all better !

Right, I don't know it all, but enuff to know what works.

RJ, you have a practical side, from living it daily, but like me, you enjoy hearing from the engineering and pure theoretical living it on the edge 100% best practice side, from folks that made a business out of batteries, battery life, and battery state of charge. ie, the Pros from Dover. I like knowing that what I don't know, can hurt my battery's performance, life, or both.

So it makes great reading, it's nice to tuck away in a corner of my mind, but when camping, other things can take priority, and a little battery life lost is not the end of the world. I'll do the best I can, under the circumstances I have to work with.

Keep in mind, RJ, right now, I am doing it all, on one Group 24 Deep Cycle battery, day in, and day out. Right now, the margin is thin, 50% state of charge. It's because when I bought my trailer new, it didn't even have a battery on it. And I had to buy one on the road, immediately, so that I would have electric brakes on my travel trailer, and so that I would have lights, and be able to have water pressure to flush. AND, being a newbie to travel trailering, I didn't know my needs. Just knew that the 21 foot travel trailer came with a small group 24 battery box, that only a group 24 would fit in, not a group 27, so that's the kind of battery I bought in a QUOTE "deep cycle" battery, at a Walmart store while in the parking lot for the night in Davenport IA. Because, at that point in time, I didn't have any travel trailer camping experience, or know any better.

So you live, and learn. The dutch in me wants to get my moneys worth out of this POS group 24DC, but when it gives up the ghost, or maybe before I go to Yellowstone in May, I'll replace it with the real deal, some GC2's or maybe a T1275. 75 amp hours isn't enough, for my daily usage. 90% of that is cutting it too thin for me, going over 50% discharge daily. Pairing a new group 24 with an old group 24 is bad battery management practice.