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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I just went out for the first time with my new 2 6v golf cart battery set up. What an improvement over a single 12v! It was a 3 day two night trip and we could have gotten by without recharging at all. And that was not using power sparingly either. Listened to the radio for a while, my daughter watched a few cartoons, water pump usage including showers, ran the heater at night, even ran the amber porch light at night for a few hours. The lowest it got was 2/3 full on the battery level indicator inside the trailer. I did run my generator for two hours on day 2 just to charge them back up. I am going to try and be good about not letting them get lower than 50% SOC. It seems to me that I would be able to camp for extended periods of time with running the geni about 2 hrs a day or probably every other day if I used power sparingly. I don't like running the generator more than necessary which is why I upgraded to the two 6v's.
My experience this trip was a perfect example why. My wife daughter and I headed out to a local reservoir dispersed site last week. We were camping on a Mon,Tue,Wed and it is quite a long bumpy dirt road to get to where we were at. We had hoped to be all alone, and we were when we got there Mon Morning. A couple hours later another person showed up with a TT and parked maybe 50 yds from us and immediately cranked up a loud @%$ generator. I thought it was strange that he would show up with dead batteries cause it certainly wasn't warm enough to need the A/C. He proceeded to run that thing for 21 HOURS STRAIGHT! I can't tell you how annoyed we were. When he finally left the next morning I could still hear the droning in my head. I was watching him when he pulled out and I noticed that he had NO batteries on the tongue of the trailer. I cannot believe that someone would pull up next to others camping and run a generator for all of their electrical needs, it boggled my mind. They even left it running when they were down at the water fishing for hours at a time.
My experience this trip was a perfect example why. My wife daughter and I headed out to a local reservoir dispersed site last week. We were camping on a Mon,Tue,Wed and it is quite a long bumpy dirt road to get to where we were at. We had hoped to be all alone, and we were when we got there Mon Morning. A couple hours later another person showed up with a TT and parked maybe 50 yds from us and immediately cranked up a loud @%$ generator. I thought it was strange that he would show up with dead batteries cause it certainly wasn't warm enough to need the A/C. He proceeded to run that thing for 21 HOURS STRAIGHT! I can't tell you how annoyed we were. When he finally left the next morning I could still hear the droning in my head. I was watching him when he pulled out and I noticed that he had NO batteries on the tongue of the trailer. I cannot believe that someone would pull up next to others camping and run a generator for all of their electrical needs, it boggled my mind. They even left it running when they were down at the water fishing for hours at a time.
