I use a wheelchair battery (not even that good, a scooter battery) for the same reason. I'm careful about what I install so I don't use to much juice. You can see the fans, etc. at http://www.knology.net/~felder/Vanagons/ I use only fluorescent and led lighting, but use a lot of light and also charge cellphones, pda, run dvds on a laptop, etc. And run a 400 watt inverter. One of these batteries ran a 13" TV, my home wireless network, cable box and laptop for about an hour during a recent outage. It runs the kitchen fans all night and runs the lights all I need. I've never tried it for more than one night without any charge, though. On a diesel westy these light batteries seem a good weight tradeoff, I'm like a cyclist when it comes to shaving weight to climb hills faster : ) Anybody have some titanium rims and 14" sewups? Jim On Jan 10, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Jim Kurpius wrote: > Are there any good reasons not to use a used wheelchair battery as a > second > battery? (I can get them for free). The batteries are not totally > dead, > just capable of holding a charge for 1-2 days instead of 3-4 which for > a > wheelchair user is obviously a hassle, but for a westy cabin seems > like no > problem. > > Jim Kurpius > 84 Westy > SF CA > |
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