Jacked your to house batteries
When boondocking, can I plug the RV into a Jackery unit to transfer amps into the house batteries? I know I loose some power going from 12 v to 110 and back but I am looking for an easy way way to mak...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
From what I gather, the OP is wanting to "substitute" the Jackery jump box for a generator and/or house batteries.
At $1600 it is an insanely expensive jump box and the largest one they sell is a 1800W model.
First and foremost, it is not a generator, it is a battery and inverter and has battery limitations.
Second, it has a very limited battery capacity of 60.9Ahr which isn't going to be anywhere close enough to "replace" your house battery unless you are talking about a group 24 RV/Marine battery.
They claim 1534Whrs of use, that is not really useful and one of the questions asked this..
" Q2: How to know the working times for my device?
A: Working time = 1534Wh* 0.85 / operating power of your device. "
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And keep in mind, you will have to recharge this device, when the battery is discharged all the fun is over.. At least with a gen you just add some more gas and your golden for hrs at a time on a tank of fuel..
They have a 2000W/2000Wh device for $2000 -- that's 160Ah@12V, so that's not insanely expensive when 200Ah of BattleBorn Lithium batteries cost $1800 (and that's just for the batteries, no charger, no inverter, etc that you get with the Jackery).
Losing 15% to power conversion losses is not terrible a $500 AIMS 2000W inverter has 10% loss at full power.
It's definitely not a generator, but it's not useless waste of money either if you want a decent amount of portable power that you can carry around with you.
