Preparing RV for trip to Europe
We are planning a trip to Europe and are hoping to ship our truck (2008 Dodge RAM 3500) + truck camper (2014 Livin Lite Camplite 8.6c) from the US to Europe. Ideally, we'll be there for a few years t...
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AllegroD wrote:
I am think a whole house 220-110 converter is going to be difficult, especially to lug around and the hertz diff may cause damage.
Conversion transformers are not impossibly huge. This supposed 5 kW model is listed as weighing 56 pounds and appears slightly more believably rated than some others on Amazon. I suspect it's still quite optimistically specified, and might limit it to 2kVA continuous or less, but it's in the ballpark for a truck camper (particularly if many campgrounds in Europe have only limited power capacity, as I think I recall reading).
I'm not sure why you'd need to lug it around the campground anyway, rather than mounting it in the camper and having a long enough lead to connect it to the campground outlet. I guess if one has a questionable quality transformer it would be safer to not have it in one's living space, though being out in the elements surely is also not a wise idea.
