24 hours? Your battery must be bad, unless you're running all kinds of fans.
Anything with a motor in it will drain the battery quickly - water pump, fans, vcrs or dvds, etc. Things like lights and stereo aren't that hard on them. Make sure your water pump isn't set too high - each additional PSI it has to get to takes it toll.
I have two 6 volt batteries in series (the hot wire goes to one battery, the ground to the other, then a wire connecting the remaining + to -). They are both 270 amp hours (I think, been awhile since I bought them). You can also hook up more than one 12 volt in parallel (you hook all the + together and all the - together). If you are planning to use more than one battery, it is important to get the exact same kind at the exact same time - do not mix old and new batteries. Be sure they are all deep cycle (don't make the mistake of getting cranking or combo cranking/deep cycle, get deep cycle only).
Take care of your batteries when you are at home. At least once a month, be sure they get charged, and be sure the charger will gear itself down to a trickle charge as needed. You didn't state the age of your trailer - if it's older than 5 years or so it may not change to trickle charge as necessary, so if you leave it plugged in, it can boil your batteries - that's even worse than letting them lose all their charge and sit for awhile.
My favorite place doesn't have electric, so I use solar. It's kind of shady there, so I am not at my most efficient. I try to get one of their sunnier sites. I have two 60 watt panels. I have those connected in parallel, and hooked up to a 30 amp charge controller. We just did a week there without running out - though since we weren't getting many hours of sunlight, they weren't at peak at the end, but still functional. As a backup, I bring along the 12 volt that came with the camper, just in case. Anyway, what I do is my first day there, I try to aim the panels directly at the sun around noon or 1:00. You want to make sure that when you use them, that they are in the sun, not partially blocked by shade. A panel not in the sun will try to draw power back if it can - so two or more hooked up don't work too well if one is in the shade (that is another function of the charge controller - not only to change to trickle charge as needed, but to also prevent the panels from drawing from the battery at night).
Hope this helps - again, your battery should last more than 24 hours even without solar.
Anything with a motor in it will drain the battery quickly - water pump, fans, vcrs or dvds, etc. Things like lights and stereo aren't that hard on them. Make sure your water pump isn't set too high - each additional PSI it has to get to takes it toll.
I have two 6 volt batteries in series (the hot wire goes to one battery, the ground to the other, then a wire connecting the remaining + to -). They are both 270 amp hours (I think, been awhile since I bought them). You can also hook up more than one 12 volt in parallel (you hook all the + together and all the - together). If you are planning to use more than one battery, it is important to get the exact same kind at the exact same time - do not mix old and new batteries. Be sure they are all deep cycle (don't make the mistake of getting cranking or combo cranking/deep cycle, get deep cycle only).
Take care of your batteries when you are at home. At least once a month, be sure they get charged, and be sure the charger will gear itself down to a trickle charge as needed. You didn't state the age of your trailer - if it's older than 5 years or so it may not change to trickle charge as necessary, so if you leave it plugged in, it can boil your batteries - that's even worse than letting them lose all their charge and sit for awhile.
My favorite place doesn't have electric, so I use solar. It's kind of shady there, so I am not at my most efficient. I try to get one of their sunnier sites. I have two 60 watt panels. I have those connected in parallel, and hooked up to a 30 amp charge controller. We just did a week there without running out - though since we weren't getting many hours of sunlight, they weren't at peak at the end, but still functional. As a backup, I bring along the 12 volt that came with the camper, just in case. Anyway, what I do is my first day there, I try to aim the panels directly at the sun around noon or 1:00. You want to make sure that when you use them, that they are in the sun, not partially blocked by shade. A panel not in the sun will try to draw power back if it can - so two or more hooked up don't work too well if one is in the shade (that is another function of the charge controller - not only to change to trickle charge as needed, but to also prevent the panels from drawing from the battery at night).
Hope this helps - again, your battery should last more than 24 hours even without solar.
