How to thrive on a non 240v site!

Check how much power your inverter is drawing, could be more than you expect.

My panels are only just about kicking out 13.5v at mid-day sunshine at the moment. The sun is so low in the sky and not helped by the fact that the panels are, of course, horizontal. This time of the year they aren't going to replenish any significant drain I would have thought no matter how sophisticated your setup.

Thanks for the comments guys,

If I shut the system down (sargent black button) there is no drain, but with the system live I'm drawing around 1 amp (alarm, victron mppt, shunt etc) When the sun is out I can see that charge is going into the batteries.  Currently the caravan (swift Conqueror 480 2015) is at home so I can monitor everything via bluetooth using the Victron APP, which I must say is brilliant.

The inverter is switched off and when on only runs 1 x mains socket, this is for camera battery charging and the "OH" 1200 watt hair dryer to be used for 4 minutes max!! every  second day.  Suggestions of crew cut didn't go down well!!

What was concerning me was that if we were away and actually using power, lighting, Alde pump etc, I'm not convinced I can keep the batteries going.  I have fitted both batteries in parallel and uprated the cables to 200 amps.  My next task is to uprate the 12 volt feeds to the battery/fridge from the 13 pin socket which is woefully under specced!!

I have also purchased a safefill bottle, but not used it in anger as yet.  

Just now need to find a list of wild camping sites available for caravans both in the UK and france.

https://www.campercontact.com/en/default.aspx?fromsso=1

Wild Camping 4 MHomes

https://www.campingcar-infos.com/

That should keep you going.

as CY says, even though our systems can keep our MH fully charged (incl alarm, immobiliser etc) it doesn't mean we can camp off grid for days on end.

at this time of the year, that will be very hard...hair dryers a no no..

of course, MH can replenish batteries by travelling...

Can’t caravans recharge leisure batteries when travelling 

Ours does

yes they do, but MH tend to move a little more often than caravanners, in general.

Some times

Not my experience on CC sites