Days with out electric hook up?

During our 2014 trip to Alaska we never really needed to plug in, but did at RV parks and public campgrounds with electric. With as much as the sun shined never had a problem using as much power as we wanted, including the inverter for TV and DVD player.

Your profile doesn't state what kind of RV you have or how many batteries. I have 2 6v GC batteries, 60 gals of FW, and minimal electrical reqs, just water pump and lights no TV or stereo stuff. In 2006 I went to Alaska and dry camped for 3 mos stayed at 4-5 full hookups during that time. Never needed the genset other than MV and my electric chain saw, not for battery charging, had a 180 amp alternator and averaged 3 night stays in one place. If this is your first trip you probably want to see as much as possible so you will move often. The longest I ever dry camped in one spot was 7 days and still had 50% SOC on batteries but run out of FW. With 2 6v GC batteries you should be fine and will not need solar for this trip unless you want to watch TV, or special electrical reqs. Also what I learned from this trip and others over the years is every 7 days my wife needs do laundry anyways so an electric site with a laundry mat is convenient so you can fully charge your batteries, wash you clothes and bedding, dump and fill with FW and be on your way the next day to a more remote site.

The pleasures of an energy-efficient Class B! (RoadTrek E-Trek)

We never plug in, and with 8 AGM's, an underhood generator, and a 5000 watt inverter we run all the appliances as much as we like. Keurig. Microwave. Hair dryer. Toaster. Have yet to turn on the TV but it is there. Coziness is required!

Match the rig to your type of traveling!

Hi marquette,

Since no inverter is in use, 300 watts of solar with a good controller will keep your battery bank in tip to shape and fully charged.

We don't use any 110v appliances so an inverter is not necessary.

IMO if money is to be spent on upgraded dry camping start with the battery bank & a decent sized pure sinewave inverter.

A solar system is useless in the dark & cloudy days. You already have a genny. Assuming it is a quiet inverter type. That will take care of battery charging no matter the cloud cover &do it faster.

Denali generator hours are 8-10 am and 4-8 pm if I recall correctly. Other public campgrounds had more generous hours. We found that sufficient to keep our batteries topped off. Williwaw near Whittier had all day generator hours. By the way, if going to Denali, you can check in the day before your stay. You are registered and given your vehicle/post tags so you can show up early and start looking for a campsite as people leave in the morning. Sites are marked A, B, or C depending on the length of your unit and you reserve accordingly. We stayed at a campground in Cantwell the day before our Denali stay so we could pre register.

If you had to run a generator in Denali could you have for a couple of hours?

While the longest stretch of dry camping on our recent Alaska trip was 4 days at Denali, I spent 95 days dry camping at Quartzsite, AZ this winter. A pair of 6V batteries, 195 watts of solar on the roof & a portable 160 watt panel. No generator, and I did make a pot of drip coffee each day.

As to Alaska, most of the commercial parks along the way have hookups with at least electric & water.

Still looking at an AGM battery. I have about $2-225 to spend on batteries and in that price range 2 GC batteries seem to be the best bang for the buck. AGM I can only get 1 battery. I can get 2 group 24's for $80 each and group 27 for $99 each.