Battery Advice

I read that to mean that 98% never camp without hookups.  If you're saying that 60% of rPod owners never camp without hookups, meaning that 40% do so at least occasionally, then that figure seems reasonable to me. I do think a poll on this topic might be interesting. How many folks use their trailers without hookups and for how long?

I agree that a typical use for an rPod without hookups is a weekend or a long weekend stay. They are small trailers. For that, a single 100AH battery will usually make it through. Once you add a charging source like solar or a generator the limiting factor becomes water usage anyhow. The two of us can go about a week on our 30 gallons but most folks would probably consider the water rationing required to be a bit extreme. 

Its interesting that larger trailers really don't use much more dc electrical energy than smaller ones. And they carry more water. Smaller trailers are much better suited to use in undeveloped campgrounds though. To me as a near exclusive off grid user, the ideal would be a trailer the size of an rPod but with more fresh and gray water carrying capacity.  I've been tempted to go with a "composting" toilet and use the additional space under the trailer to add more fresh and gray capacity. But its just much additional weight for the trailer axle and chassis.  

Originally posted by offgrid Seriously!? Only 2% ever camp off-grid? I challenge that estimate.Sounds like a poll is in order 😁...

This is correct. It may seem skewed to you/us, but like many things, it's a matter of who we hang with and what we do. Remember R-Pods in particular, and small campers in general, are a very small market segment. And very few owners over 20 feet are taking them off grid, just a fact of logistics mostly. Even among small camper owners in general, and podders in particular, your poll will still show a very large percentage never camp off grid, in fact, almost 10 years of experience with podders all over the country tells me that about 60% won't camp without FHU's. Period.

But, many people who camp off grid, don't stay out to the point (either time or weather based) that any extra measures need to be taken above what the Pod came with. We did 3 day stays, in good weather, on the stock Group 27, 5 days on a pair of them, and almost 2 weeks when we had dual T105's.. But very very few RV owners will ever do 14 days off grid. We have to remember there are over 8 MILLION RV's registered and being used.. If every single Pod ever built was used totally off grid at least once this year, it would still be less then .06% of the total trips camped.. (assuming at least 3 trips per year per registered rig.)

About 20,000 pods have been built so far. Of the 8,000,000 RVs registered, if all of them where still intact and on the road, (and we know they aren't) that's only .25%, or 1 in every 400 RV's.. And R-Pods ARE the market and segment leader under 20 feet.