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sleepy
Dec 14, 2013Explorer
I woke up at about 5AM... heading for the bathroom. The first thing I see is always the TriMetric... as a confirmed boondocker resources like available electricity, propane, water, and waste tank capacity are always important.
The inside of our camper is lite up like a christmas tree... tiny LED indicators everywhere... helping me to monitor systems.
I knew that we had watched some of a football game on the TV before going to bed... then the news. Our batteries were at 95% when we went to sleep.
We are power conservitive.... 75 Amps is all that I'm willing to take out of our two Optima group 31 AGM batteries. With 95% remaining we had used 3.75 amps.
Now, 7 hours later, the Trimetric said that we were at 89%.... we had consumed another 6% running the Platcat and all of the other load... fridge controls, LED indicators... maybe a water pump cycle.
We were warm and our total power load was 4.5 Amps over the last 6 hours.
I tried to take a picture of the indicator on my Trimetric with my cell phone... showing the 89% remaining.

The inside of our camper is lite up like a christmas tree... tiny LED indicators everywhere... helping me to monitor systems.
I knew that we had watched some of a football game on the TV before going to bed... then the news. Our batteries were at 95% when we went to sleep.
We are power conservitive.... 75 Amps is all that I'm willing to take out of our two Optima group 31 AGM batteries. With 95% remaining we had used 3.75 amps.
Now, 7 hours later, the Trimetric said that we were at 89%.... we had consumed another 6% running the Platcat and all of the other load... fridge controls, LED indicators... maybe a water pump cycle.
We were warm and our total power load was 4.5 Amps over the last 6 hours.
I tried to take a picture of the indicator on my Trimetric with my cell phone... showing the 89% remaining.

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