Question on charging batteries with Gen
We will be picking up our new to us toy hauler next week. It has a 23 CF residential refrigerator and an 80 amp converter. For the 1-2 times a year that I do not have shore power, Would my 2200 genera...
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ajriding wrote:
time to roll, 100 is plenty for a propane fridge. Almost nobody will boondock with residential electric appliances. You could probably use a few Duracell C or D batteries to run a propane fridge.
Propane packs more power than a battery ever will. Gasoline packs a lot of power, but is not efficient way to run a propane fridge on 120v. The propane is just a little candle flame, and that is all that is needed to have a fridge.
The parasitic loads in my RV amount to 35 amp-hours per day @ 12.6 volts. There is NO way a single 100 watt panel is going to do that sort of output, unless it is May through Oct with a tilt. Even then it would need to be pretty much perfect solar conditions.
Do a proper energy audit when designing a system instead of guesstimating.
Yours Truly, Nemo.
