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Basically get the largest battery that will fit into the battery box, Lead Acid are cheap as chips, I just recently bought a 120Ah LEOCH battery for £90 inc delivery, if you can up the budget and go for AGM or GEL battery, they will give you a longer service life, but will cost about £200 for 120Ah.
Remember with any battery apart from LiFeP04 don’t discharge it below 50% capacity, as doing so will shorten it’s life.
Also it’s worth adding a battery monitor, I have ordered the Aili battery monitor from China it’s a Victron rip of for under £30, the Victron is £150!, the monitor will give you info on the battery, like how much capacity is remaining, and will help you from over discharging the battery and ruining it.
Also for a caravan I would add a couple of 120 watt solar panels and a MPPT Controller, a fairly cheap option for keeping the batteries topped up whilst of grid.
The best drop in replacement batteries to to get are the Lithium Iron type, although a 100Ah is around £800 RELION RB100, but to be fair they will last longer than any Lead Acid battery, and you can safely run them down to 10% capacity, so in the long run run they work out cheaper, although at a much higher initial cost than Lead Acid.
If you want to use an electric kettle, you will need to add an inverter, 600 watt pure sine wave will be fine, but better still 1000 watt, but you will have to use a kettle that is just 500 watt like the Bestron or 600 watt VonChef, although using a kettle that can go on the gas hob is a better way of doing things in a caravan.
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Yep 664Dave, our little Waeco CF25 was our main camping fridge for five years, but it was a little to tiny for our fortnight or more campings, so in 2013 we got the a Mobicool C40.
Although we would continue to take the Waeco CF25 for in car use, that may change now as during this lockdown I have put together a portable 120Ah power pack With 600 watt pure sine wave inverter.
We got the Waeco CF25 back in 2008 for £150 new, and it still works as when new, great bit of kit it has to be said.
But now the Mobicool C40 can be powered whilst in the car for our four day journey down to Frejus and back, basically I have created a poor mans Mobicool FR40 lol.
I got given the inverter, and just had to buy a battery and battery box, some cables and fittings, the power pack works great and I mainly built it for powering my 600 watt kettle whilst on the road out at work.
Will be adding the Aili battery monitor next week, when it arrives from China, to help keep an eye on the battery status.
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