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Festus2 · 03-15-2013, 09:37 PM

Barry -
Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your new Springdale. You should be good for the weekend with prudent use of your batteries. Minimizing the use of lights and the water pump will help to reduce battery drain.

If you do a fair amount of dry camping, I would recommend that you consider installing LED lights. There is a Sticky on LED Lights and Lighting in the Modifications and Upgrades section of the forum which you might find informative.

When your present 12v batteries start to show their age, I would take a serious look at replacing them with 6v. These will give you a few more amp hours and enable you to stay out a bit longer without hookups.

03-15-2013, 09:37 PM	#2
Festus2 Site Team Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fraser Valley BC Canada Posts: 7,015	Barry - Welcome to the forum and congratulations on your new Springdale. You should be good for the weekend with prudent use of your batteries. Minimizing the use of lights and the water pump will help to reduce battery drain. If you do a fair amount of dry camping, I would recommend that you consider installing LED lights. There is a Sticky on LED Lights and Lighting in the Modifications and Upgrades section of the forum which you might find informative. When your present 12v batteries start to show their age, I would take a serious look at replacing them with 6v. These will give you a few more amp hours and enable you to stay out a bit longer without hookups. __________________ 2008 Cougar 5th Wheel 27RKS 2005 2500 GMC Duramax