Cold weather, generators, and campgrounds
My wife and I were at Yellowstone the past few days at NPS campground Madison, which is run by Xanterra. It was pretty cold and snowy for several days, not extreme, but a little "rough" for mid-Octob...
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ktmrfs wrote:
Those that are camping should have enough sense to make sure they have a battery bank good enough to last through the night. Throw on an extra quilt, turn the thermstat to 50F and most any battery will last through the night even if it dips below freezing.
Yep.
I see a lot of potential failure in this situation:
- Failure to completely recharge the batteries during daytime hours.
- Failure to leave enough reserve in the battery to get you through the night.
- Failure to properly maintain your batteries, or to replace them when they no longer have more than a small fraction of their original capacity.
- Failure to use a heat source that conserves battery power (or doesn't use any battery power at all).
Every one of these failures is the RVer's fault, and is entirely preventable.
