Focker
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Your battery is very close to what I would expect for a percentage overnight. This time of year with the sun low in sky I get less than half the incoming watts from solar as I do in the summer. Add to this that you mentioned overcast skies, it will further reduce your recovery power.I ran my fridge and was disconnected from shore power when battery was 100% and the out was around 1.4a, checked next morning and battery was around 70% and being charged by solar. I shut fridge off and was then a +.5a to the battery, next morning (fridge off) battery was dead.
My thoughts and I'm not totally familiar with the electrical system:
1. Not enough daylight (overcast etc.) to charge battery
2. Gas detectors drawing a lot at night
As mentioned I didn't have it for most of the summer so hard to compare just wondering if this will be sustainable if I ever go dry camping as I don't want to run generator full time unless I use to charge the battery
For dry camping "insurance" I would suggest you consider a set of ground deploy panels. Having something you aim at the sun is super helpful.
Two weeks ago I just installed a 2nd charge controller on my Valor for ground deploy panels. This will give you an example of what I get from the roof in winter sun compared to the ground deploy. Both are shown in the photo. I will also attach a photo of a typical summer full sun overhead day.
Just to lay it out clearly, in winter full sun I get 430 Watts, in summer full sun I get 1149 Watts.
On the roof I now have 4 Renogy 320 watt panels. The ground deploy is a Bluetti 380 watt portable set.
This is what I get in full sun in the summer just from the roof panels: