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John___Angela
Explorer
Oct 15, 2013

Interesting results of power use audit when dry camping.

So we have been dry camping for about a week in fairly lousy and cold weather (read below freezing every night. So as we have to be here for a few more days I decided to see what sucks the most power...
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Bill_Satellite
Explorer II
Oct 27, 2013
5. Rear Entertainment System
a. Standby – 1.64A
b. On – 3.88A
6. Front Entertainment System
a. Standby – 1.95A
b. On – 13.6A
7. Front TV – 6.18A


There may be some issues with these numbers. Your front TV is drawing 741 watts and your front entertainment center nearly caps out your 15amp breaker drawing 1632 watts?

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