Who has Solar/ what controller/panels?

lawrosa wrote:

Right know I am using 100 watt plug in invertors for cig lighter outlets in camper. I have two. They serve me well so far. Im not sure what they draw just being plugged in..

http://www.carid.com/stanley/120-watt-power-inverter-mpn-pca120.html



Well so far I run an LED tv. about 25 watts

Summer with no A/C I have been running a 20" box fan at night only to sleep. Try not to hang in camper during day as its too hot. 90 F..LOL This fan on low runs 25 watts also.


So thats minimum 50 watts or 4.6 amps.

I make coffee with a perculator. My shore power coffee pot is 900 watts I think. I dont need to use this.

I tried to cook in the oven but things dont cook well. Burnt edges or undercooked in the middle.

My toaster oven is 1000 watts. but not sure if I should attempt to run it.

I have two 12 volt 75 AH batterys..

I been charging them back up with my truck mod I made off the alternator. I do this daily as by morning my batterys are about 12.1 volts.

See here..

http://forums.woodalls.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/28265300/srt/pd/pging/1/page/4.cfm

This is why im looking at solar. But also if I get an invertor to power outlets in my RV im sure that invertor will use amps while im sleeping. Unless I go out in the storage department to turn it off..

It sounds like you may only need a 300 or 400 Watt inverter. There are inverters with remote on/off switches to reduce power consumption by the inverter just "standing by".

You will probably want to get a "Pure Sine Wave" (PSW) inverter. They are a bit more expensive than Modified Sine Wave (MSW) inverters. MSW inverters can cause problems for some devices. That is a whole 'nother topic of discussion on this forum.

Samlex PSW 600 Watt Inverter with optional remote on/off switch

As far as the propane oven two suggestions:
1. if you buy a pizza stone and put it on the bottom of the oven it should help a lot with smoothing out the heat and stop burning the edges of your food.
2. get "air bake" pans. they have 2 layers with air between them and folks in the RV.net cooking forum swear by them.

Air Bake Pan on Amazon

Ed