House Battery Upgrade - Where to put 'em??
Hi all! We're getting ready to upgrade our house battery setup (adding a nice pure sine inverter, etc). We're in a 2003 Fleetwood Flair 33R. It has the stock pair of 6V batteries. They're doing fin...
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Its not realistically feasible to run an AC off the batteries. You 'could' for a little bit... hour or two.. but the drain on the batteries is going to be amazing. Having Solar would help a little, but the batteries will need a REAL charge afterwards.
Now.. option B. A portable AC is more realistic, the kind that has an exhaust tube (like a dryer).
You are still going to use a lot of juice, but it may be closer to your goal than the RVs AC.
I actually made that pinterest AC thing out of a Home Depot bucket, a DC fan, and ice. It freggin works. The down side is the ICE. We have an ice maker, and last year we had 15a service so that could keep running as I couldnt run the AC.
Now.. option B. A portable AC is more realistic, the kind that has an exhaust tube (like a dryer).
You are still going to use a lot of juice, but it may be closer to your goal than the RVs AC.
I actually made that pinterest AC thing out of a Home Depot bucket, a DC fan, and ice. It freggin works. The down side is the ICE. We have an ice maker, and last year we had 15a service so that could keep running as I couldnt run the AC.
