Hi, I'm brand new here and haven't been able to find a couple of probably stupidly basic answers. We have a 5th wheel RV with an Onan 5500 watt generator. We'd like to start doing more off grid camping so I am looking to upgrade the cheap battery that came with the camper with maybe 2 AGM 100AH batteries or a single lithium battery. We will user the battery to run 12V systems only as we do not have an inverter- If we want to run the AC or microwave, we can use the generator.
My questions are:
Thanks to anyone that can off guidance.
My questions are:
- Do I need solar to begin with? If I can charge the batteries with the generator running a couple hours a day (assuming AGM at 50% or Lithium at 80% discharge) then I'm all set. I'd like to not have to run the generator more than that.
- If I do need solar to help charging, then what batteries? It will need to run the 12V systems and start the generator
- I guess we could have a different battery for starting the generator but that seems like a lot of complexity?
Thanks to anyone that can off guidance.