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DownTheAvenue's avatar
Feb 22, 2016

Air Conditioner can be run off batteries and inverter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0rZY5uotKI

14 Replies

  • The extra money spent on batteries and solar panels would power a diesel generator for about 1000 hours. I don't think it's a good trade off, especially since it requires perfect conditions to run for a few hours.

    If I recall, this is one of the couples that bought their RV on a TV show where they were shown three RV's and then bought one.
  • I saw that
    Inverter was using 82 amps, solar was producing 45 amps
    They have 960 watts of solar, the complete system cost $4300 on Amazon,
    Even they said better to use the generator, but yes it could be done, and that was only (1) A/C unit
    After three hours they would be down 100+ amp hours
    Not dead..not in need of immediate recharge
    Not with 700 amp hour bank
  • Ivylog's avatar
    Ivylog
    Explorer III
    Yes it can be done but they had to wait for a sunny day and at a negative 30 amps with a $1400 700 AH batter and looks to be $1500+ of solar panels... about four hours on a 83 degree day and the battery will need to be recharged with what??? maybe a generator.