My boondocking electric plan
After a lot of research here's what my plan is.
I bought a 100 amp hour Lithium Phosphate battery for $509 from Amazon. It only weighs 25 lbs, so bringing it in and out of the house off-season is going to be a lot easier than having two 65 lbs golf cart batteries.
I bought a 2,250 dual fuel generator, will run it off propane primarily to charge the battery. It only weights 39 lbs.
I bought a bluetooth Battery Monitor so I can keep tabs on what I'm drawing off the battery and how much it has.
In our pop-up with a standard Lead Acid 500 amp hour battery we could get through 5-7 days, but all we used were the lights and charging our phones pretty much.
As the hybrid has a water pump, electric awnings, radio and other things, I figure we would only get a couple of days without the upgraded battery.
So what remains to be seen is how many days between charging the battery. My guess is we can go a week if we're super conservative with usage, and if we're using more power we should only have to run the generator to charge the battery every few days.
Time will tell!
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