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Originally Posted by GFED
I really liked the suggestion to rent a couple first. I've never driven anything larger than a passenger car. I think anything larger than 25' would be a challenge. I'm not worried about space for belongings, but maybe a Class B will be too cramped for me.
I'll be boondocking/drycamping most of the time. Solar panels will be a must. Thinking about 500 watts panels with a 6 battery bank of 6v AGM. I'm not sure if that's enough? It's just what I guesstimated.
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I look to this general guideline for batt run times.
How to Calculate the Run Times of Your Battery
I would also tend to think 500 watts of panels is all you will get on the roof of a class B, the space for 6 6v batts would be hard to carve out I bet. If you use energy efficient everything and also use propane, you can go very very far on 2 6v golf cart batteries wired in series, which is what I did. that bank = ~230 Amp hours of power and can get you 20 hours if you are conscious of your power drains.
But if you drain your batts too far, your 500 watts of solar will not replenish it. You will need a serious battery charger/generator combo.
Your rig comes with one but they usually only have shitty chargers which would take more than a day to recharge my bank, a day on the gen is not good.
The good news is there are plenty of current tech multi-stage chargers you can quickly update your stock house charger with. I just upgraded mine to a progressive dynamics 70 amp charger/converter (it also runs the 12v house system), it recharges my fully depleted bank back to 90% in 2.5 hours