Lance 650 Battery Issues?
Hi everyone, Please forgive my lack of technical terms, I'm a young woman owning a truck camper for the first time and have been figuring out how an RV works for the past year, but I wanted to kno...
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Ms. Glamper,
Since, I'm assuming, you tow your horse/trailer around with your Titan gasser pickup with L-650 aboard, what are the chances of making room in the trailer for a couple more batteries and heavy duty wiring and plug? Bryan (BKA), above has a large battery collection in his trailer and wired it up to his overpowering solar array and the F-550. Also, I missed the wattage of your solar panel(s). Is it enough? Do you park it in the sun? Living in AZ, there is plenteous sun to harness. Is there any more room for another battery in the engine compartment, like the diesels use? We have an older Lance with the same footprint as your L-650 and have only one group 27 battery, which has served us well backed up with 200 watts of solar, all LED interior lighting, miserly power use and new converter. Our ace in the hole is the use of the two truck batteries in line with the Lance house battery. All 3 batteries are group 27 starting batteries. Only once ( I'm such a fool) when by mistake I left the fridge on 12V overnight did the 3 battery system go down and that was before all the upgrades. I shan't do anything that dumb again. The incident forced me out of the 12v running of the fridge at all and switchover to propane. By installing an aluminum wind deflector shield behind the fridge side vent, I got the pilot to stay on while motating down the highway.
Anyway, this forum has some of the very best RV electrical gurus anywhere. No, I'm not one of them. Absorb their sometimes disparate advice and run.
Since, I'm assuming, you tow your horse/trailer around with your Titan gasser pickup with L-650 aboard, what are the chances of making room in the trailer for a couple more batteries and heavy duty wiring and plug? Bryan (BKA), above has a large battery collection in his trailer and wired it up to his overpowering solar array and the F-550. Also, I missed the wattage of your solar panel(s). Is it enough? Do you park it in the sun? Living in AZ, there is plenteous sun to harness. Is there any more room for another battery in the engine compartment, like the diesels use? We have an older Lance with the same footprint as your L-650 and have only one group 27 battery, which has served us well backed up with 200 watts of solar, all LED interior lighting, miserly power use and new converter. Our ace in the hole is the use of the two truck batteries in line with the Lance house battery. All 3 batteries are group 27 starting batteries. Only once ( I'm such a fool) when by mistake I left the fridge on 12V overnight did the 3 battery system go down and that was before all the upgrades. I shan't do anything that dumb again. The incident forced me out of the 12v running of the fridge at all and switchover to propane. By installing an aluminum wind deflector shield behind the fridge side vent, I got the pilot to stay on while motating down the highway.
Anyway, this forum has some of the very best RV electrical gurus anywhere. No, I'm not one of them. Absorb their sometimes disparate advice and run.
