Off grid for first time, need some guidance !
Wow. Haven't posted in a while. I have missed tapping into all the available wisdom here. With Covid and boarders closed, site availably has sucked around me. We managed two sites consecutively at...
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Grit dog wrote:
I guess if the OP got rid of ALL parasitic loads like he said, he might make it more than a day on one battery, but I have a similar size/same brand trailer with 2 new 6V GCs (cheap ones from Costco, but that trailer with minimal power use: 1 time on the electric jack, water pump, fridge controls on LP and a couple hours with a couple lights.......... the batteries were good for somewhere around 36hours.
And that included firing the genny sporadically to run the microwave and a short AC blast to cool down.
Stories bout how someone's 40 year old van with an old school fridge and a stock of duracells for puck lights and 1 person occupancy aren't really relevant.
If OP truly can't use his nice red generator judiciously to recharge and parks in the shade then find somewhere else or buy one of them Ferds with the built in generator...
The person with the 45 year old class C was simply pointing out that it's better to do a test run and see how much power you are actually using before spending a bunch of money on mods and such that you may not need. What is necessary for one person may be overkill for another - understand what you need and go from there.
If the campground doesn't allow generator use, then talking about using a generator isn't really relevant.
