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[jpmihalk]

Solar will help on sunny days, not so much on overcast or rainy days as you won't really gain that much energy unless you invest in a lot of panels and a controller that knows what to do with them.

Getting as many good batteries (we have 4 Interstate AGM group 31 batteries) as you can and figuring out your energy budget will help. We boondock a lot, and on overcast days we run the genny for a couple of hours when needed and we also have the auto generator start set for when the batteries get to 50% (11.7V) as well as 400W of solar panels. We make it through the night easily and generally make it through most of the day as well with a lot of phone/laptop charging and Xbox/TV/Sat TV through the daytime. The residential fridge is generally pretty efficient.

The original Harris batteries we had replaced as we purchased a unit that had been on the lot a while and the batteries had a reputation for being bad already. We had the dealer install the new batteries as part of the deal. Lesson learned from our previous MH.