First time dry camping this weekend

RoyB wrote:
Glad you did some planning before going. I keep preaching the planning part. I also like to use the word SUCCESSFUL.... They go together...

Otherwise if you just show up and expect it all to work it will most definitely get dark on you around 10PM hehe... Then what are you gonna do...

We do great with my 255AHs battery capacity - Run all the 120VAC toys from an 600WATT PSW Inverter and all the 12VDC toys direct connected to the battery bank. We have all of this planed out to run all we want to run and drop our battery bank to 12.0VDC around 8AM the next morning. You have to keep a watchful eye on the battery monito panel... Then we can run the generator for just three hours to recharge then bank back up to its 90% SOC. I always start off with a 90% SOC otherwise the batteries drop real quick performance wise. If I just charge for an hour you think it is helping but it really isn't charge wise. It gets worse and worse only charging an hour each day... Three hours generator run time is great at 8AM in the morning. Then you can make up your fresh ground bean coffee and do some other generator required things making breakfast etc. Then you are good for the next day/night run off the batteries starting out with a 90% fresh charge. Works very successful for us at any rate. Our camping off the power grid way back in the woods is almost the same as we do at regular electric camp sites. Don't do without anything we want to have on except air conditioning. We watch HDTV every night if we want to... My camp site is lit up like we don't any good sense hehe...

Having my front deck on the OFF-ROAD POPUP really is my savings grace. Between that and the pickup truck bed we come pretty well stocked up for all of the PLAN Bs that need to be addressed.

I'm still hoping to do some more camping in the NC high country... Got to get the BRADDY Sequestor out of the way and should be back on the road again soon...

When way back in the woods having a couple of 5-gallon water containers and those 7.5 Gallon AQUA-TAINER totes to carry off the gray water really helps out. I always spot out the water holes before going into the woods. There is usually a designated rest room somewhere near by... Can carry out 15GALS of gray water and bring back 10GALS of fresh water haha.. Having a two wheeled folding cart helps too...

Roy Ken

For the weekend (two nights) we found that our fresh water/gray water set up to be adequate. I bought two of those 6 gallon Jerry cans from Walmart and filled them up before leaving home. I also have a 35 gallon tote that I can carry with us if for longer period of time. But where needs to be a dump station near by. If we are going to be in an area where we basically need to haul it out, I will either have to crank up the mh and drive her or I would get a couple of those aqua trainers you mentioned. Just have to find a cheap solution of getting the gray water into them. From the large port hole to a smaller one. There's gotta be some sort of reducer out there.

As far as power, I just gotta get more comfortable with it. We are going to a state park that is literally 5 minutes from the house on Labor Day weekend. There are no hookups. I will feel more comfortable testing it out more fully then. And I remembered to leave voltmeter in the camper. Might even try the tv at night for a couple hours. Lol