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I have a large slide-in truck camper. When I have it on the truck, th truck and camper weigh around 12,000 pounds. I get 8.5-9 on the hwy. I can get close to 10 if I keep the mph around 55, but that doesn't happen often.
Of course, you do need the generator and that's an additional $2.5K, but it makes camping with diesels much easier.
I've heard of some super batteries that are even longer lasting than a deep cycle. Do you know anything about them or how big they are? I looked briefly at my battery compartment. My current battery appears to take up a little over 1/2 the space, but it doesn't appear that I could fit two of them it. The ideal situation would be to find a super battery that would fit in the compartment.
This post would probably fit better in the cabover topic area on the first page, but I figured I'd pick your brain here since you seem to have winter camping experience.
The camper battery should be a Type 31 or 32. These are huge and will fill your compartment. My use of a heater and typical lights with amplified music never uses more than a third overnight. I have a 55W solar charger which completely restores the battery each day. The solar cell is the true secret ingredient. Generator recharging is highly inefficient and really a waste of LPG.
My battery is a deep cycle marine battery that is about the size of a standard auto battery. I think it might have been flawed from the time I bought it, because I'm not convinced it ever held a full charge. I have no idea how long it sat at the dealers lot. It's a moot point now. I left it in the camper for a couple of months at subzero temps, so it's history now. It wouldn't charge at all. I'll be getting a new one. Thanks for the info on what to look for.
Regardless of the panel, you do need a long daylight period since the current is low. In Alaska the benefit would be proportional to the daylight duration.
I'm now driving a 97' F350 PS CC SRW LWB w/ 3.73 gears & 5 spd. manual and handle the same loads with ease.
Empty running on the highway it will knock down 20 mpg at 72-73 mph on cruise (Houston to Pensacola,FL)no problem.
I've read on sevearl posts elsewhere that you can get the F450 wheels to fito onto the F350.
I have a F250 that I would like to make a Dually.
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