Converter/ solar feasibility question.
I didn't want to hijack Muddys thread so here it is. I accidentally left the converter on when I hooked up the systems this trip and it got me thinking. Since the trailer is plugged into the big in...
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Yes it is. A while back we had a thread going about using a "remote power supply" to plug the RV (that had no battery) into. Sort of a little trailer with its own battery bank and inverter with solar on it too.
I ran a backyard test of how that would work so the RV with no battery could get its 12v from its converter. IIRC it "cost" about 6 DC amps draw on the remote bank above what any rig 12v draw was. So the solar could keep up with that in your scenario even to charge its battery. Of course the battery would have to be smaller than the remote bank and not take too long to be tapering its amps to something less drastic.
I also tried just using a 2amp trickle charger on one half of my bank powered by inverter on the other half. It made the inverter draw 3 amps. This was no problem for the solar. Less drastic for amps than the converter which cannot be "dialed down."
I was thinking of running a trickle charger for the truck battery or one of those deals with a MH that has solar on the house but nothing on the engine batt. Just fooling around, but it did work.
This all came from a member here who was doing something like that but ran a long 12v line to the rig from his remote power bank. To avoid that long 12v wire we (ISTR mena was in on this) were trying the converter option.
I ran a backyard test of how that would work so the RV with no battery could get its 12v from its converter. IIRC it "cost" about 6 DC amps draw on the remote bank above what any rig 12v draw was. So the solar could keep up with that in your scenario even to charge its battery. Of course the battery would have to be smaller than the remote bank and not take too long to be tapering its amps to something less drastic.
I also tried just using a 2amp trickle charger on one half of my bank powered by inverter on the other half. It made the inverter draw 3 amps. This was no problem for the solar. Less drastic for amps than the converter which cannot be "dialed down."
I was thinking of running a trickle charger for the truck battery or one of those deals with a MH that has solar on the house but nothing on the engine batt. Just fooling around, but it did work.
This all came from a member here who was doing something like that but ran a long 12v line to the rig from his remote power bank. To avoid that long 12v wire we (ISTR mena was in on this) were trying the converter option.
