Couple of concerns I noticed over the weekend
I took my 1 yr old Dutchment 275BHS camping over the weekend, first time without any hookups, and a couple of issued came up... First of all my battery did not make it thru the weekend. I had plugge...
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the best camping we do is without hookups
we do not have solar or a generator
we have a circle of camping friends that prefer to camp without hookups
the unwritten code is no generators are allowed .
we have all graduated to diesel pickups which have 2 batteries .
we park our trailer .
turn our pickup around .
hook up heavy duty jumper cables from the 2 diesel batteries to the 2 trailer batteries .
our rig gets driven every second or third day.
when we return we reattach the jumpers immediately .
the 4 batteries equalize some what .
we do not try to charge the trailer batteries from the pickup anymore .
just running from 4 batteries does the trick
we have a regular group 9 day campout each year .
this method has been working for about 15 years .
i have chosen to replace my duramax batteries with Exide EDGE AGM batteries . my system worked fine on the stock GM batteries however .
when i return the trailer to the storage shed , i always disconnect my fully charged RV batteries from the RV system .
that has proven to extend the life of the RV batteries .
i have 12 volt RV batts.
when i need new ones i will get 2 costco GC2 golf cart 6 volters , to wire in series .
we do not have solar or a generator
we have a circle of camping friends that prefer to camp without hookups
the unwritten code is no generators are allowed .
we have all graduated to diesel pickups which have 2 batteries .
we park our trailer .
turn our pickup around .
hook up heavy duty jumper cables from the 2 diesel batteries to the 2 trailer batteries .
our rig gets driven every second or third day.
when we return we reattach the jumpers immediately .
the 4 batteries equalize some what .
we do not try to charge the trailer batteries from the pickup anymore .
just running from 4 batteries does the trick
we have a regular group 9 day campout each year .
this method has been working for about 15 years .
i have chosen to replace my duramax batteries with Exide EDGE AGM batteries . my system worked fine on the stock GM batteries however .
when i return the trailer to the storage shed , i always disconnect my fully charged RV batteries from the RV system .
that has proven to extend the life of the RV batteries .
i have 12 volt RV batts.
when i need new ones i will get 2 costco GC2 golf cart 6 volters , to wire in series .
