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CanadianW_s
Explorer
Mar 12, 2015

How to keep cool while (partially) dry camping all summer?

We will have a huge, beautiful campsite, treed all around and waterfront but with privacy (there's a short, treed path from our trailer site to the sandy beach). We have water hookup but no electrical...
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JiminDenver
Explorer II
Mar 13, 2015
CanadianW's wrote:




3. Running a small a/c unit off solar power. Unlikely, but I have seen a you tube video of a guy running a smaller a/c unit off solar power (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml58Zw4wRqg). It's not pretty, but he clearly was able to make it work.



Using 720 watts of tracking solar I am able to run the lowest wattage window air conditioner I could find. It would take a considerable battery bank to keep it going if the sun wasn't shining.

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