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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rlw999 wrote:
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.
Losing 15% (inverter loss)to get to 120V and then an additional 15% (Converter loss) to run 12V devices is 30% loss.
In your example of 160 Ahr at 12V that is a 48Ahr capacity loss giving you only 120 Ahr to use.
Makes using a BattleBorn battery direct a much better choice.
