Plug RV into an invertor.
Hi. New camper is on its way soon. I pick up in a couple of weeks.. Man I cant believe all the stuff I had in the old camper... he he. I finally sold the unit in my sig.. Anyway Ill have to rein...
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RoyB wrote:
I have a 1500WATT PSW Power Inverter on my off-road POPUP trailer... Loaded down it will draw around 130AMPS from my battery bank setup... This will run down a regular 12VDC battery in about 5-10 minutes use time (If that)...
You will have to redo your 12V system to handle such a load... You might just want to run a smaller Power Inverter just big enough to handle your Home Entertainment items and some indoor/outdoor lights... I have a second Power Inverter which is a 600WATT PSW Inverter that is my work horse Inverter setup (always on) and I like to run it around half loaded down. I can do this with my 255AH Battery bank using LED lights to run around 20AMPS DC load for other things we want to use between 6PM and 11PM and not let my battery drop below 12.0VDC which is close to the 50% charge state. Then I will run my 2KW generator the next morning for around three hours when allowed to bring my battery bank back up to its 90% charge state so I can do this all over again for the next day/night run off my battery bank...
This all takes good planning to work out the pitfalls...
Roy Ken
Wow 130 amps? Is that what It will draw from the 12 volt side? How can that be?
1500 watts @120 volts can supply 13 amps according to ohms law..
I got 2awg cable from work that I was going to run the 2 or 3 ft from the batts to invertor.
I have 220 ah of batterys. 3 12 volts.
