How many amp-hours?
Hi! I would like your opinions. I have an ATC Panther (pop-up TC) that we are building out. The TC came with a 79 amp-hr battery, which we found to be insufficient. So what does our rig warrant in ter...
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jimh425 wrote:
I think they mean .8Ah for the circuitry/board of the Dometic frig and it runs on propane.
I don’t think you can have too many amp hours. You might also want to think about going Li-Ion so you can run the battery down to a lower percentage.
We’ve found that we can easily make an entire weekend with our 2 normal batteries in one spot if we run the generator about an hour each day. If we are moving around like at Yellowstone, we almost never have to run the generator. Changing to all LED lights made a huge difference. Also, keep in mind that newer tvs use a lot less power.
It's an electric cooler-type fridge. Dometic CFX series.
Thanks for the reply. Yea, we are barebones. No TV. No LP. No generator (but we have the solar panels). Electric fridge. We got the solar panels so we didn't have to drive to charge the battery. It was a PITA. We camp when we drive a lot and move around (like Yellowstone like you said), and we camp where we don't move the truck for days on end (when we go rock climbing/City of Rocks/or we bring bikes).
I was thinking the same about battery amp-hours. The bigger the better? :)
I will look at the Lithium Ion batteries. Haven't really considered it. The battery we have is in the camper, no venting, so that's a consideration too.
