Great Smoky Mountain National Park (No Power
I am heading to Cades Cove + Campground in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park this summer for 9 days. We love the park and everything around it. The only problem is there are no electrical hook up...
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If you have never dry camped before most stock chargers take 2 days or more to charge batteries, I would bring an automotive battery charger that has at least a 15 amp option to charge each battery. The factory charger might put out about 10 amps.
I disconected my factory charger and added a PD9160+wizard 60amp charger and it will charge 2 batteries from almost dead to full from 1 to 2 hours. 2 group 29's. In cold (40's)weather I charge once a day, usuall around dinner, do dishes, shower, run electric heater, since I have extra power to use. We do a couple dry camps a year.
I am form Michigan and want to camp there real bad, wife and I got married there 11 years ago and have not been back. On the list of things to do, we actually had a bear walk between us on a bycicle ride and we were about 20 feet apart, talk about a rush. We might take a tent for a couple days and then hit a rent a house for a couple more, hopefully next year.
I changed all my lights over to fluorescent tubes befor led's came out, wish I waited, to much into them to change again, they did drop my usage in half though.
I disconected my factory charger and added a PD9160+wizard 60amp charger and it will charge 2 batteries from almost dead to full from 1 to 2 hours. 2 group 29's. In cold (40's)weather I charge once a day, usuall around dinner, do dishes, shower, run electric heater, since I have extra power to use. We do a couple dry camps a year.
I am form Michigan and want to camp there real bad, wife and I got married there 11 years ago and have not been back. On the list of things to do, we actually had a bear walk between us on a bycicle ride and we were about 20 feet apart, talk about a rush. We might take a tent for a couple days and then hit a rent a house for a couple more, hopefully next year.
I changed all my lights over to fluorescent tubes befor led's came out, wish I waited, to much into them to change again, they did drop my usage in half though.
