Itinerant1 wrote:
StirCrazy wrote:
Itinerant1 wrote:
Batteries living in the PSOC (bouncing between 25%-95%) using whatever is needed at anytime during this period of time with the daily use of 200-250ah. Decided yesterday to do a full charge using the generator, it was another overcast/ drizzle day and at 1:45pm (47% SOC) with solar production of only 50ah total for the entire day.
wow 50AH a day is my daily use in the camper on a cold evening with the furnace running a bit during the day and all night. in the summer I only use about 20 to 25AH.
Steve
The inverter alone is 48ah daily. Like I said I live like on hookups. December is the roughest month power production/ use with shorter daylight hours, if I can get the nose of the 5th wheel facing the sunrise solar production is usually good throughout the day with little needed help from the generator with an hour charge boost on occasion. This is the 6th winter on the system using it like this.
If you have 120V devices that do not need to be powered 24/7 you could use an inverter which has a power save or load sense setting. That will easily slash your wasted power via the inverter running with no load by half.
The inverter I used for my home fridge conversion has that capability, I set it so a 9W load will trigger the inverter on. When no 120V load is detected the inverter goes into a deep sleep. Load detection is nearly instant on, just a slight delay when I open the fridge door and the 120V light turns on.. Granted that may not work well for say your TV, but for myself it is enough savings that it beats having to drag an extra pair of GC2 batteries around.
