

Some people are paleo eaters, some vegetarians, and some people MUST have ice-cream while on their trip.

Your travelling party may be just you and your spouse, while others may include children. We all have different cars, campers, fridges and numbers of electronic devices. To start with, we need to understand that EVERY set-up is different. Please see the affiliate disclosure for more information. So this post is a BEGINNER GUIDE covering only the basics of battery power for camping, to help put all the names and pieces of equipment into context.ĭisclosure: there are some affiliate links below. I don’t expect to become an electrician, but I would like to know the names of each of the components and what their job is. And when you’re buying used (like we are) some set-ups already have a battery powering LED lighting & a water pump for the tap, and they talk about throwing in the solar panel for free… but I don’t know if that’s enough battery for what we need and once again, if it stops working how will I know what’s wrong? I am quite sure that you could walk into any of the camping stores or reach out to them online and they’ll tell you exactly what you need, but then if it stopped working, I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea of what was wrong… not much help if you’re in the middle of nowhere.

If you’re like me and your brain starts to hurt whenever you start reading things like ‘deep cycle battery’, ‘inverter’, ‘anderson plug’, ‘amp hours’ or ‘watt meter’, then hopefully this post is helpful to you. Actually I know I don’t have the whole picture yet because I’m still confused and I don’t know what I need! I have been putting off writing about the basics of battery power for camping for a couple of weeks now, it’s a subject that I know I need to know about… but it’s been quite confusing and I’m not sure I have the whole picture. Learn about the basic of battery power for camping
