40 days Boondocking / Dry Camping
Just returned from a 51 day trip thu Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Nevada. Boondock & Dry Camp 40 days of the 51. Would have been more but someone caravan back with us to AZ who need...
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2oldman wrote:lc0338 wrote:No, but @12v I would expect your wiring and/or batteries to heat up. Mine did under those conditions.
with a 2000w pure sine wave inverter and 500ah of battery storage would you expect a water kettle (1500 watt) to trip a breaker or blow a 200 amp fuse between battery and inverter? It's a 12 volt system.
I'm running 48vdc. Nothing gets warm.
The original 200 amp fuse was an anl and very thin. changed it out to a go-power 200 amp which has a little more meat and tried the water kettle again. monitored temp with infrared gun and fuse and lugs did not heat up but wire 2/0 going from battery monitor shunt heated up 7 degrees (it was 95 degrees when I did the test). Everything looked go no problem with new fuse but samlex inverter fan came on then GFCI tripped cutting off power. The original fuse blew (or melted) and a volt meter measured 145 amps when the fuse blowed. Trying to determine what is going on.
