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Is using a 40A DC-to-DC Battery Charger on a 1500 RAM battery and alternator SAFE?
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Thanks Dstock. We use 10-Guage WindyNation brand cables, as well as series connected solar panels to lower the resistive losses. (We...
Aug 15, 2024
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Just noticed from your photo you are using portable panels, you'll want 10-gauge wire for longer runs especially if you are getting in...
Aug 15, 2024
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Go ahead and idle that Hemi to charge the batteries. Pretty soon you won't be in a dark cold RV. You will be in a nice AC/Heated hotel...
Aug 15, 2024
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We try!
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I hate to say it, but you are going to need a lot more battery to cover all of that draw for extended periods of time without solar...
Aug 15, 2024
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I'm on the other program. I grew up in the city, escaped as often as possible to the backcountry and stayed as long as my vacation...
Aug 14, 2024
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When I wasn't 70 years old, I would have 100% agreed with you. But after years of "real" camping in the wild (tent and motorcycle in...
Aug 14, 2024
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Everyone has their own idea about camping and it's rarely similar. I haven't camped in years but my idea of camping was disappearing...
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I grew up on a farm in the middle of bluttfluck no where Sask,so i was never big on camping,my idea of fun was getting off the farm and...
Aug 14, 2024
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We sold our house and have been full time boondocking RV'ers for the last four years, so comfort is pretty important to us. (Since...
Aug 14, 2024
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Wasn't asking about your generator,that's pretty common knowledge,i race at 5,000+ft DA alot of the summer. Take the cloud factor out...
Aug 14, 2024
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Unfortunately, while the clouds are not obscuring the sun everyday, it can rain for up to five to seven days, and we completely run out...
Aug 14, 2024
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In the Southwest at altitude, the monsoons produce clouds and rain during the Summer, thus massively obstructing sun light to the solar...
Aug 14, 2024
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Thanks Dstock and RamDiver. I have room for one more 100 amp/hour Lithium Ion, and then I will literally have no more space, but that...
Aug 14, 2024
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One approach I've never heard discussed here is the battery capacity and any possibility of beefing up that capacity. We've spent pages...
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