Grit dog
Black Diamond, WA
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You’ll never need bigger than that 1kw to run your converter/charger. But it won’t run the AC or microwave.
Lob the second battery in there and go hunting!
Run the genny as long as you need to. You’ll figure out how long you need to run it. We can’t figure that out for you and there’s no need. It’ll be fine as long as you have a way to charge the batteries.
As your question is very basic, a few things to keep in mind.
Conserve LP gas and power in general. It’s not an apartment. Keep heat off or very low when you’re not needing it (including dealing with freezing temps if that will happen).
Chain up the generator or someone else will have a free generator….
Why not test it in the driveway? So many questions here could be answered if a person didn’t go to the internet first to ask questions that don’t have succinct answers rather than just trying it out.
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Tvov
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Bobbo wrote:Tvov wrote:You should be able to camp for days on one battery with a gas refrig.
My experience is that you can get one night per battery. When I camped with one battery, I had to recharge every day. When I upped that to two batteries, I only had to recharge every other day. (Solar greatly extended that however. Later, much later.)
We camp for a weekend regularly on one 12v battery, Friday to Monday. But... we are really careful with it. About the only things the battery is running is the electronics for the frig (gas frig), water pump, and that's about it. We use camping lanterns in the camper, take "Navy" showers, use lights very sparingly.
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swimmer_spe
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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Tvov wrote:Bobbo wrote:Tvov wrote:You should be able to camp for days on one battery with a gas refrig.
My experience is that you can get one night per battery. When I camped with one battery, I had to recharge every day. When I upped that to two batteries, I only had to recharge every other day. (Solar greatly extended that however. Later, much later.)
We camp for a weekend regularly on one 12v battery, Friday to Monday. But... we are really careful with it. About the only things the battery is running is the electronics for the frig (gas frig), water pump, and that's about it. We use camping lanterns in the camper, take "Navy" showers, use lights very sparingly.
With y old trailer that had a gas fridge, it could last about that long too.
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