Mexico Wanderer - "Choice, choices, choices!" What shall we do. We do attempt to find a spot that will charge battery bank by noon and then have shade in the afternoon. Yep, good luck on this! We spent three weeks on Olympic Peninsula and I called the Mora CG within the NP and asked about a site sufficient for solar and was gently chided by the lady on the other end "Sir, this is a rain forest, your solar panels will not be of much help!"
Someone on some forum discussed the King Air 750W 48V DC air conditioner. I have requested further information from them. Fortunately, our battery bank is 48V nominal (LFP) and this might do nicely for anyone with around 800 to 1000 W of solar. Being DC, there would be no energy loss through inverter.
Alas, we are a two-trick pony and the two tricks have to do with solar and LFP (and that only because we have a son the business). As noted, ad nauseum, in our erstwhile postings; we can run air conditioning 3.5 hours (with 50% DOD)from combined solar/battery bank. Generally, we just run off battery bank as the sun is going down to drop interior temperature to below 85 F. This is quite sufficient for dry environment but would not work in southern US with 90% humidity. We generally only have to run air conditioner for half an hour to obtain this which takes about 1 kW-hour of energy (things are not terribly energy efficient going through an inverter).
Reed and Elaine
