waking to dead new batteries
I am waking upon to dead batteries on the new house batteries. The last two nights I have been turning everything off when going to bed and waking to not enough charge in the batteries to start the g...
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Golf Guy wrote:
shut everything down except for the furnace that I set at 60 degrees for the night.
Bingo
If you leave the furnace on, it can run your batteries down, easily, overnight. I did that in Yellowstone in Sept 2011. I quickly learned to set the furnace to 45 degrees overnight (it is only to prevent freezing water lines). And that was after running the generator for 12 hours with a Progressive Dynamics PD4655V converter (spelled GOOD CONVERTER) to get the batteries fully charged.
Sleep with a heavy quilt, then jump up in the AM and turn the furnace up.
