On the Road Again!

"Whaaaat!!" After three days of "off grid" living the new setup has worked quite well.  We have used the kettle quite a lot and the air fryer. The air fryer peaks at around 1800 watts. The kettle around 1000w. Getting up on the morning of the fourth day, the battery is showing at 81%! To be fair the weather has been very overcast and raining at times since we arrived. So we aren't getting a lot of solar energy through the panels on the roof. 

It's something I have been thinking about for a while; off grid or wild camping abity. Currently Molly is fitted with a single 100 watt solar panel on the roof between the front window and the first (and largest) roof light. It's connected up so that it can charge the leisure battery and contribute to the engine battery.  After a few weeks of non use both were showing on the battery levels at around 12 volts. The sun came out for a few days and the leisure battery went up to the max on the Malibu display, equating to about 13.5 volts. The engine battery pretty much unchanged. The problem we find is, that even with the power banks, we simply don't have enough power to stay in aires that don't have access to electricity for more than a day or two.  We have just about managed when away on rallies with our motor caravanners' club and generally we only have two nights away. We have gas for cooking and heating  Once parked up we run the fridge in gas. All the full time va...