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Skibane wrote:

Lantley wrote:

Skibane wrote:

time2roll wrote:
Solar panels... very quiet.

And impractical for powering RV air conditioners and other high-power loads that run a lot.

Also useless in heavily-shaded campsites.

You need to brush up on what solar is currently able to do.
You can now Run A/C on solar set ups with enough battery storage.
Of course you need sunshine but A/C capable solar is here.

Oh, I'm fully-brushed.

The amount of panels and batteries needed to run even one 15,000 BTU roof air conditioner for more than a few hours per day is completely impractical for the average RVer.

If you wanted to run the air conditioner 24 hours a day, the average RV roof doesn't even have enough room to mount all the panels that would be required.

Then there's the whole issue of not being able to park your RV in the shade, because the panels need full sunlight to produce any significant power - even though parking an RV in the sun drastically increases its AC cooling requirements.

In many campgrounds, there are no unshaded sites. How do you use your 25 solar panels and 1500 pounds of batteries there?

I'm not referring to running it 24/7. But is certainly possible to run overnight. I have a neighbor with a Grandesign with 4 lithium batteries
that can run his A/C about 5 hours. He has space for more panels. Battery capacity is his limiting factor. He has storage space but has simply not purchsed the batteries.
I have a built in Onan 5500 genset. It was about a $7K option
If I were buying today I would invest that $7K in solar.
MY built-in genset allows me to have push button electric at all times,
however a modern solar set up could accomplish the same feat, quietly!
Most if not all campgrounds have genset rules and limitations however they don't have rules prohibiting solar powered electric.
A modern solar set up would give me a lot of camping options.
Being able to book non electric site and still have quiet electric would be a huge game changer