Battery Life?
Newbie here. I've never boon-docked before, and was wondering how long I can have the lights on in my TT before the battery gets to a critical level (from what I've read below half way charged is bad...
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prichardson wrote:
What size battery? Can you turn off the dew point heater on the fridge? If the first question is Grp. 24 and second is no then 1 maybe 2 nights. If you can turn off the fridge heater and minimize the number of lights then 2 to 3.
Increase the battery size and time will be longer.
The OP is a newbie and won't have any idea what you mean by "dew point heater on the fridge". Explanation - many gas absorption fridges will have a 12 vdc heating element located in the area between the fridge and freezer sections that's intended to help reduce the build up of condensation when it's really humid. When on shore power leaving this heating element powered is obviously a non-issue but when running on battery power it's unnecessarily drawing down your precious battery reserve. Obviously under those circumstances you want to turn it off, the problem being that in recent years fridge manufacturers have deleted the switch necessary for this purpose. Unfortunately the OP hasn't provided any information as to which trailer his has nor which fridge, for if we knew we could probably tell him whether he has a heating element that can't be turned off. We could also further advise him how to install his own switch so he can disable this heating element, as necessary. Until the OP offers more pertinent information as to just which battery he has, details his intended use, and offers specifics about his trailer it would be impossible for anyone to offer any reasonable answer to his original question. :R
