Eco Worthy 120 watt solar

 We have about four weeks of reservations at Clearwater Lake and Alexander Springs campgrounds in Florida this Winter. Our new solar panel will be helpful because both campgrounds do not have electrical hook ups we will still have our generator when needed. Will be our first time camping without electrical hook up but I think we can adjust. It will be cooler weather so AC will not be needed we can run generator if our battery gets to low or if we need the microwave. Hope we have a lot of sunny days!

How much battery capacity do you have? 200 amp hours or so (dual batteries) will work much better while off grid by providing more energy storage for cloudy days as well as reducing frequency of generator operation.

Unless your very frugal with your electric usage or your tow vehicle can't tolerate the additional tongue weight (about 60-80 lbs more) you will most likely ultimately want dual batteries if you do a lot of off grid camping. It's well worth it, many of us here will only camp at places without electricity, myself included.

If you do get dual batteries, your best choice ( short of converting to Lithium) is two 6V golf cart batteries connected in series. That will have a rating of around 205-220 amp hours at 12V. Get case size GC2 batteries and a couple plastic battery cases that fit that size. You would would also need a battery jumper to connect them in series, one only.

In the meantime keep track of your battery charge level and enjoy your trip!

Why would the fridge effect battery usage? You're running the fridge in propane right? When on propane fridge electric consumption is negligible.

 We run it on propane but when the sun is on the side of the trailer hitting the refrigerator fan continues to run that's the only thing draining the battery there are no lights on in camper and they are led anyways they don't use much electricity. In the mornings when the sun is not hitting the refrigerator the solar meter shows battery getting stronger in voltage but when sun starts warming up outside where refrigerator is at you can hear the refrigerator fan running continuously while sun is hitting refrigerator side and meter showing voltage for battery begins to drop. Our refrigerator is not 12 volts it's either 110 volts or propane. Not sure how many amps refrigerator draws while operating by propane I am guessing its more than solar panel is producing at times. We have not had continuous sunshine there has been some clouds too the solar panel is 140 watts not sure what it has been averaging in the amount of watts it has been producing peak has been a little over 6 amps and sometimes as low as .03 amps.