Author: Tars Tarkas
Subject: ON THE ROAD SCENERIO
Posted: 16 May 2017 at 7:58pm
You can get a little multimeter at Walmart for probably less than $10. You have to access the battery or a hot and ground point in the fuse panel. Others are talking about a hardwired volt meter, which is nice and also inexpensive but sounds like it might be beyond what you're ready to do at this point.
You should be okay for one night if you start out good and you're getting a decent charge from your tow vehicle during the day's driving. As mentioned, do NOT run the fridge on the 12v option. Ever. There is really no good excuse for the 12v option. Use propane if you don't have shore power.
If you don't care about running the air con or microwave, any little generator will charge your battery if you can run it for a couple of hours.
Worst case, and I mean after checking the battery at the Walmart auto service area, you can buy a new battery at Walmart. I'm not an expert on batteries, but with a new battery, you'll know what you have and you can get what you want. Switching to two batteries, either 12v or 6v, is not something easily done on the road, but a new deep cycle 12 v battery will get you through many single nights without shore power.
TT
Subject: ON THE ROAD SCENERIO
Posted: 16 May 2017 at 7:58pm
You can get a little multimeter at Walmart for probably less than $10. You have to access the battery or a hot and ground point in the fuse panel. Others are talking about a hardwired volt meter, which is nice and also inexpensive but sounds like it might be beyond what you're ready to do at this point.
You should be okay for one night if you start out good and you're getting a decent charge from your tow vehicle during the day's driving. As mentioned, do NOT run the fridge on the 12v option. Ever. There is really no good excuse for the 12v option. Use propane if you don't have shore power.
If you don't care about running the air con or microwave, any little generator will charge your battery if you can run it for a couple of hours.
Worst case, and I mean after checking the battery at the Walmart auto service area, you can buy a new battery at Walmart. I'm not an expert on batteries, but with a new battery, you'll know what you have and you can get what you want. Switching to two batteries, either 12v or 6v, is not something easily done on the road, but a new deep cycle 12 v battery will get you through many single nights without shore power.
TT