We had been told that the battery (small one) would generally last three days. This is true if you are careful. In our case, on our first night out we turned on a show for our daughter, cranked up the music in the galley, charged cell phones, a camera, laptop and a Kindle on an inverter - and then cranked up the furnace and read for a few hours using the cabin lights.
Cary told us never to let the battery meter go below 10.5
It was holding steady at 11.1 and then 5 minutes later it was at 10.0 Horrors! I ran out and turned on the tow vehicle for 15 minutes which brought it back up to a safe level. Cary told me in the morning that this was the only smart thing we had done that evening (well, he didn't exactly say it like that).
If you ever do run the battery too low, it's very important to put a charge on it right away to save it from permanent damage.
And we learned that when you are running a lot of things off the battery at the same time, the reading can tend to drop off suddenly - like falling off a cliff.
For the rest of the trip we went light on the electronics unless we had shore power.
Cary told us never to let the battery meter go below 10.5
It was holding steady at 11.1 and then 5 minutes later it was at 10.0 Horrors! I ran out and turned on the tow vehicle for 15 minutes which brought it back up to a safe level. Cary told me in the morning that this was the only smart thing we had done that evening (well, he didn't exactly say it like that).
If you ever do run the battery too low, it's very important to put a charge on it right away to save it from permanent damage.
And we learned that when you are running a lot of things off the battery at the same time, the reading can tend to drop off suddenly - like falling off a cliff.
For the rest of the trip we went light on the electronics unless we had shore power.
