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- Very common for you to be charged for electric and sometimes water in the southwest. We have had to pay electric at every campground in Tx, NM and AZ. Never had to in the midwest
2oldman wrote:
wopachop wrote:
When voltage changes I revert to watts to do the comparisons. I'd call it a 12,000 watt setup.
Since he is knocking it down to 12v power i suppose his AC and lights and everything else. To keep it simple would you call it a 1000ah setup? Since 12v is the norm for what RV lights and appliances normally run off?
Yep. We have 4 GC2s in series making 24V at 215Ah or 24*215=5160Wh
Previously it was 12V at 430Ah, same Wh. He has double that.
What you need for 24V system is a good 24VDC-120VAC inverter.
A/C must be 120VAC, not 12VDC.
Most 12V loads/appliances are small; a small 24-12V converter works fine. Think my converter goes up to 40A to handle the tongue jack.wopachop wrote:
When voltage changes I revert to watts to do the comparisons. I'd call it a 12,000 watt setup.
Since he is knocking it down to 12v power i suppose his AC and lights and everything else. To keep it simple would you call it a 1000ah setup? Since 12v is the norm for what RV lights and appliances normally run off?- For those who dont have the time to watch slow videos, yet find the time to come online and complain about it here is a fun tip!! On youtube the bottom right has settings. Turn the speed to 1.5 or 2. You can still understand their words.
Wish they would have talked about those sliding racks. How they secured to the roof. What wind speed they feel comfortable with having them extended.
Trying to understand the battery bank topic as well. Like oldman said each side is four 6v batteries to make 24v system per side. So that means each side is 250ah at 24v? For a total of 500ah at 24v.
Since he is knocking it down to 12v power i suppose his AC and lights and everything else. To keep it simple would you call it a 1000ah setup? Since 12v is the norm for what RV lights and appliances normally run off? JimK-NY wrote:
I thought I saw at 8:00 he was running 24v - which would still be 250ah.
since the batteries are 6 volt and they are hooked up to deliver 12 volts, it takes 2 batteries to provide 250 AH at 12 volts.- out here
the state and national forest / parks campgrounds
do NOT provide electric hookups
you want hookups you goto a commercial CG or RV resort
yeah, they need to learn videography , but so do many people
i thought the use of extending large panels sliding 'out' from over other panels to increase solar accumulation while parked an interesting idea
they also provide some extra shading when extended out - I could not help but notice that even those who are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about solar just don't get 6 volt batteries. The video showed 2 banks each with 4 6 volt batteries. Each battery was stated to be 250 AH. That looked about right based on battery size. The claim was that the total was 1000 AH for each bank. Since the batteries are 6 volt and they are hooked up to deliver 12 volts, it takes 2 batteries to provide 250 AH at 12 volts. Each bank of 4 is 500 AH, not 1000 AH. I doubt this was a casual error. People somehow believe that a 6 volt battery is going to give them twice the capacity of a similar sized 12 volt battery. Common sense should tell them something is wrong with that reasoning.
GordonThree wrote:
.......They claim never pay electric again, is paying electric a PNW or California thing?
I have never stayed at a campground that charged for electricity. If it's not included with the site I roll someplace else.
Many of us rarely stay where there are hook ups. I was a full timer for a couple of years and have another 5 years of RV use averaging several months a year. I would guess I have averaged about 2 nights per month of camping staying at places with hook ups.- Good for them I guess? Couldn't make it very far into the video. As soon as the video went vertical, I closed the tab. A grip that holds your phone horizontal is less than $10, come on already.
They claim never pay electric again, is paying electric a PNW or California thing?
I have never stayed at a campground that charged for electricity. If it's not included with the site I roll someplace else. - Interesting. Thank you for posting.
