BPRescue wrote:
While there would be times I hit full hookups, mainly for traveling on vacation, most of my usage would still be dry camping. In that regard, I already have 200w solar panels, and will immediately upgrade the batteries to get me more AMP hours onsite. In short, I don't want to shoot myself in the foot by limiting myself to formal campgrounds with asphalt, I do enjoy the prospect of the aided comforts.
Again, I want the option to go full hookup, but will mostly do dry camping and at some point based on how well my solar works, may get a generator as well.
Where you could certainly
"shoot yourself in the foot" is by making the same assumption most of us do when buying a trailer is that the converter / charger supplied by the trailer manufacturer will actually be well matched to the batteries ... reality is, such is often not the case. :M For those who camp with shore power this isn't an issue but anyone intending to mostly dry camp and recharge using a genset
really needs to pay attention to this. A well designed solar system is an alternative but of course the catch is that solar is only effective when the panels are fully exposed to the sun, which often isn't the case. If charging with a genset you need to know that your charger can properly recharge those batteries from 50% to 90% DOD within a reasonable amount of time, say 3 hrs or less. Don't address this issue and you could easily be looking at hours and hours and hours of genset run time OR in cases where genset run time is restricted batteries that haven't been properly recharged. :M
I will be taking a trip to Yellowstone and Jackson, which has already presented some issues. For Yellowstone, I want to stay in the park and treat this as a "hotel" so doing the full hookup thing.
The only campground where that will happen in Yellowstone is Fishing Bridge and given your background you're sure to intensely dislike being jammed in like a sardine. Better to dry camp at Yellowstone and plan accordingly. ;)
