Help RV Questions! Hunting with your RV!

[Albertadiver]

Give my Dad a shout. He owns The Battery Doctors in Red Deer. They sell all kinds of RV batteries, inverters, solar panels, you name it. Ask for Earl. 403-340-8777. He'll be able to tell you about deep cycles, and charging times with solar etc.

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by Jason Balesdent

Just my $.02,, what about changing your lights to LED's? If your lights are auto style bulbs these should be an easy and quick way to reduce your amp draw. Might not work in some trailers but.........

I was thinking of that too... I had been looking into installing LED bulbs in my trailer, and I found these. (Look under PCB Series LED Lamps) Unfortunately I sold the trailer before I had the chance to try them out.

[Unregistered user]

Originally Posted by mojo

Here is a link to the 12 volt side of life.

http://www.ccis.com/home/mnemeth/12volt/12volt.htm

Great link, thanx for posting.

[pogo]

This page should help anyone to manage the current drawn on the batteries:

http://rveducation101.com/articles/RVConverters.pdf

...and I think it was Jamie wondering about how batteries might work in extreme cold. I understand the average flooded cell type battery would freeze and not work. I believe there are types of batteries that will work in the cold, but they might be cost prohibitive, depending on your budget.

I'm looking forward to the day I can afford two big solar panels, inverter, and four, count 'em, four 6v deep cycles. I'll have to bolster up my battery tray to take the weight. Not enough left in my hunting budget to do it this year.