As is always the way with me, I ended up spending an inordinate amount of time procrastinating over whether or not we needed to add additional electrics to the car. Our needs are pretty basic:
- 12V to power our fridge
- 240V to power our laptop and AA battery charger (probably via a 300W pure sine inverter)
- 2 or 3 5V USB outlets for phones, GPS, etc
I tried pretty hard to convince myself that we could get by using the main car battery to power all of this lot, but in the end I couldn’t shake the vision of settling down with the laptop for the evening and accidentally leaving it on only to find us with a flat battery the next morning; unable to start the car; on a deserted steppe in Mongolia. We would be literally f*#k*d.
So we needed a second battery, and all the paraphernalia that comes with it…..
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