{"id":15827,"date":"2012-10-16T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=15827"},"modified":"2016-09-18T20:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T17:19:49","slug":"the-battery-monitor-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-battery-monitor-works\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battery Monitor Works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lost 120V power early this morning, so I had a chance to confirm that my <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=15809\">12V system<\/a> and battery monitor were working properly.<\/p>\n<p>Had I not had the battery monitor, I would have been very confused and frustrated since all my battery readings put me at about 11.5V, or a completely depleted battery! But the battery monitor was a lot smarter, telling me I had about 99% capacity and could keep going for about 29 hours at my current rate of consumption!<\/p>\n<p>As for what was on, two LED lights, two regular bulbs, the fridge (switched to propane), and the water pump. I was drawing about 6AMPs. I decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11501\">confirm that standard RV bulbs are power suckers and switched one off<\/a>. My power consumption immediately dropped by a full two amps!<\/p>\n<p>This informal little experiment has confirmed that switching to all LED bulbs will pay for itself quickly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost 120V power early this morning, so I had a chance to confirm that my 12V system and battery monitor were working properly. Had I not had the battery monitor, I would have been very confused and frustrated since all my battery readings put me at about 11.5V, or a completely depleted battery! But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[632,810,635,718,5,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-chambly","category-north-america","category-quebec","category-rving","category-tech","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}