kerrlakeroo wrote:
Cheryl, your getting a ton of input, and I dont think any of it has been wrong, but it may have been overwelming.
Lets start with this,
You have a 27' class C. No genny, that I think you have been using in RV parks with at least some hookups.
I am guessing you are looking at changing how you are using it.
Can you then tell us what your goal is? Where you plan to live or go and what you would like the inverter to do.
I have a feeling your looking at one much larger than you may need, but please give us an idea of what you want to do and any of us would be happy to try to be helpful.
Maybe this inverter is more powerful than I need, but I always heard that to run the a/c, it needs to be 3000. I would like to run the a/c when I need it, but mostly I'm going to try to live with my floor fan use, microwave, laptop, and those sorts of things. Coach lights, all the rest.
I had a 3100 watt generator. Champion. Thought I was set for life. Rookie mistake! It was so huge and took up so much space that I couldn't set up my dining table. I wasn't going to be able to haul that thing in and out every time I needed it. It was just beyond ridiculous. Sold it last year.
I know generators walk away. That scares me, too. But if I have the batteries to let the inverter draw from, and then a 1000-2000 watt generator to charge the batteries, that should do it. Right? I have no platform on the back for the generator and again, I can't afford to have it walk away. It will be stored in the coach, between some seats or if I must, take out the passenger chair (no one uses it anyway and the dog prefers to hide beneath it) and use that floor space for the generator.
I will be in parks at times. I have no idea what my future has in store for me. But I can't keep living month to month in campgrounds. It's just as bad as having an apartment, depending on where you are in the country.
I'm paying the lowest campground monthly fee they have in CT right now. $675 and I don't even have sewer on my site. Gotta drive to dump up the hill. No discount for not being "full hookups." And metered electric. No laundry facilities here either.
In GA over the winter, I was paying $500/month with everything included but their water would be awful sometimes. You wouldn't dare drink it when it started smelling.
Anyway, I just want to see how the other half lives. I never expected I would live in campgrounds when I went fulltime, but I am addicted to certain comforts and conveniences and I am naturally hot blooded. I need a fan on almost all the time.
I don't have tv, though. Just the computer and internet. That's another hurdle for another thread. Need to get wifi eventually. It never ends.
