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Battery saving while camping

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What are the best setting to save battery while camping? With 4 campers during a 4 day car camping trip, I’m imaging wasting lots of power every time someone opens a door to retrieve an item. Turn off proximity locking/unlocking?
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As above &
Limit VP drain I plan to connect a jackery battery & solar panel
 

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+1 for Camp Mode with everything off to the maximum extent possible. This will keep the vehicle asleep when entering and exiting the vehicle, and sounds, lights, and proximity locking will be off.

The only thing we normally power off the vehicle when camping is an induction cooktop for breakfast and dinner. Based on this usage, our camping use is about 2% battery per day (G1 Max Pack). I figure this breaks down to about 0.5% vampire drain and 1.5% cooking.
 

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What are the best setting to save battery while camping? With 4 campers during a 4 day car camping trip, I’m imaging wasting lots of power every time someone opens a door to retrieve an item. Turn off proximity locking/unlocking?
Yes, and camp mode, but I would still expect to lose at least 3-4% per day even WITHOUT using any outlets or HVAC. Turning on the heat overnight could be use to 10% battery in my experience even if it's not all that cold.
 
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Camped 3 nights in mild temps. Ran the AC a couple hours one day. Ran the fan one night with no AC. Brewed a bunch of coffee with a Keurig (1475 watts). Only used about 19 kw over the thee nights.

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