a great comparison of LI vs AGM jars
Hi all, From Victron--who sell both LI and AGM battery technology: https://www.victronenergy.com/blog/2015/03/30/batteries-lithium-ion-vs-agm/
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Mexican Wanderer
Our LFP battery suite has about 9 kW-hrs and a 4.0 kW PSWI. Son trailed system running microwave, air conditioner and a few other things just to see what would happen. We were drawing 3.5 kW through inverter from battery..
At this moment we are on beach about 20 km north of Tulum and we are running the Dometic energy hog air conditioner from battery suite and we are drawing 2200 W. We will recover tomorrow from solar - or we might plug into the shore power to recharge if it is overcast. We have done such 4 times in last two weeks since it rained all day on those occasions. Need to remove the Dometic and put in 48 V mini-splits. Battery suite is 48 V nominal and this would mitigate the energy loss of running power through the inverter.
Switching over to mini-splits would open space for two or more 235 W panels. But probably not need them since they are supposedly one heck of a lot more efficient.
Live on RV.net indeed
Reed and Elaine
Our LFP battery suite has about 9 kW-hrs and a 4.0 kW PSWI. Son trailed system running microwave, air conditioner and a few other things just to see what would happen. We were drawing 3.5 kW through inverter from battery..
At this moment we are on beach about 20 km north of Tulum and we are running the Dometic energy hog air conditioner from battery suite and we are drawing 2200 W. We will recover tomorrow from solar - or we might plug into the shore power to recharge if it is overcast. We have done such 4 times in last two weeks since it rained all day on those occasions. Need to remove the Dometic and put in 48 V mini-splits. Battery suite is 48 V nominal and this would mitigate the energy loss of running power through the inverter.
Switching over to mini-splits would open space for two or more 235 W panels. But probably not need them since they are supposedly one heck of a lot more efficient.
Live on RV.net indeed
Reed and Elaine
