House Power While Driving? Best option
Hi All, I'm Mike H from the now humid Niagara Region and I just bought an immaculate Fleetwood Tioga Montara (BunkHouse). So much money has been spent refreshing this thing by the last 2 owners tha...
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House battery may or may not charge from alternator, 12v circuits in house may or may not be powered from alternator. Different configurations have been used by different brands and models of C motorhomes over the years.
If you don't want to fix then genset, then you need to tie a large enough inverter into your 12V system to power what it is you want to power (sizes range fro less than 100 watts to more tha 4 kw) then make sure that inverter gets alternator power in addition to house battery power, and that the alternator has the capacity for the load, not so much a problem at 100w (drawing 10 amps) but a real issue if looking for 4kw which might need 400 amps into the inverter.
I rely on the genset to power the whole house, for what you want to do. If people are back there to watch TV they also need the A/C running to avoid heat related health problems, because my C will quickly get to more than 100 F exposed to southwestern southern summer sunshine
If you don't want to fix then genset, then you need to tie a large enough inverter into your 12V system to power what it is you want to power (sizes range fro less than 100 watts to more tha 4 kw) then make sure that inverter gets alternator power in addition to house battery power, and that the alternator has the capacity for the load, not so much a problem at 100w (drawing 10 amps) but a real issue if looking for 4kw which might need 400 amps into the inverter.
I rely on the genset to power the whole house, for what you want to do. If people are back there to watch TV they also need the A/C running to avoid heat related health problems, because my C will quickly get to more than 100 F exposed to southwestern southern summer sunshine
