Battery-generator-charging upgrades?
This year will be our longest boondocking trip to date 7-10 days and want to upgrade our camper for this trip. I'd appreciate some suggestions and feedback to make sure we spend our limited budget wis...
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You should invest in a better quieter generator like the Honda 3000i. Without to much pulling on it you will get 24 hours of run time for charging. Of course if you run AC it would be less. It just sits there and purrs along. Mine is now 13 years old so you get what you pay for.
First thing change your batteries. This is my second TT and my last TT had Trojan T-125's 10 yrs old and going strong. So I did the same thing on this new to me TT. The trick to batts is never let them get below 50% otherwise you shorten the life. In the morning, start the gen and charge up the batts, while you are making coffee using water pump etc. You may have to run genny for 2-4 hours to charge them up depending on how much you discharged.
Those are the first two things. After buy a charge wizard module to plug into your existing charger, it will properly maintain and charge the batts.
Later on perhaps you can add solar. I have had solar for two years and my last 4 times out dry camping a week at a time, I never started the generator. We even got lazy and used the elec perk coffee pot instead of the stove. We watch TV, dvd's, play on our laptops, charge phones. Two of the trips included 3 college kids with all of there toys.
First thing change your batteries. This is my second TT and my last TT had Trojan T-125's 10 yrs old and going strong. So I did the same thing on this new to me TT. The trick to batts is never let them get below 50% otherwise you shorten the life. In the morning, start the gen and charge up the batts, while you are making coffee using water pump etc. You may have to run genny for 2-4 hours to charge them up depending on how much you discharged.
Those are the first two things. After buy a charge wizard module to plug into your existing charger, it will properly maintain and charge the batts.
Later on perhaps you can add solar. I have had solar for two years and my last 4 times out dry camping a week at a time, I never started the generator. We even got lazy and used the elec perk coffee pot instead of the stove. We watch TV, dvd's, play on our laptops, charge phones. Two of the trips included 3 college kids with all of there toys.
