Battery life
How do you keep your battery powered during a 7 day stay in one location? How do you find out what runs on battery or electricity? We are taking our longest trip thus far in our trailer. We take our b...
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We use a set of # 2 guage 12 foot jumpers to hook up the 2 AGM batts in our pickup to the 2 travel trailer batteries .
We park the trailer and just turn the pickup around .
The pickup gets driven every 2nd or 3rd day .
We hook up all 4 batteries as soon as we return .
The 4 batts equalize .
We dry camp .
We do a 9 day boondock every summer since 1984 .
Our setup has worked well for over a decade .
This works good . no genny . no solar .
For heavy current draw I consider Roy B to be the expert .
For heavy duty needs RoyB says two 6 volt GC2 golf cart batteries are the only answer .
I replaced my duramax pickup batts with Exide Edge AGM group 78 for $ 140 each from BiMart .
Like my Pop said " There is no substitute for cubic inches " .
That includes batteries .
Do a Wikipedia about AGM batteries and you will find the reason we made that switch .
Over time we have converted to AGM in our cars,truck, boat, and TT .
I stopped running my pickup to recharge the RV batts many years ago .
The switch to 4 big AGM batts works for us .
But the real game changer is to use the heavy duty jumper cables and run off of the 4 batteries .
We park the trailer and just turn the pickup around .
The pickup gets driven every 2nd or 3rd day .
We hook up all 4 batteries as soon as we return .
The 4 batts equalize .
We dry camp .
We do a 9 day boondock every summer since 1984 .
Our setup has worked well for over a decade .
This works good . no genny . no solar .
For heavy current draw I consider Roy B to be the expert .
For heavy duty needs RoyB says two 6 volt GC2 golf cart batteries are the only answer .
I replaced my duramax pickup batts with Exide Edge AGM group 78 for $ 140 each from BiMart .
Like my Pop said " There is no substitute for cubic inches " .
That includes batteries .
Do a Wikipedia about AGM batteries and you will find the reason we made that switch .
Over time we have converted to AGM in our cars,truck, boat, and TT .
I stopped running my pickup to recharge the RV batts many years ago .
The switch to 4 big AGM batts works for us .
But the real game changer is to use the heavy duty jumper cables and run off of the 4 batteries .
