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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Because Quicksilver is "super-size" hopefully the following extremes will suggest proportional importance of how to match load to recharging.
A pair of 21 CF custom Vestfrost 24 volt appliances.
Insulation panels of 2" thickness were preloaded into place then the appliances. The rear was sprayed with closed cell foam beneath the condensors.
The ventilation is floor to ceiling with a pair of manual controlled Pabst fans. 1.4 amperes at 24 volts.
After more than 20 years the 6 solar panels did their best to maintain but all four 380 A/H L16 batteries are shot. A pair of Megawatts can be used for umbilical power post refrigerator and freezer recharging.
Double the wattage to equal 12 volt wattage
The average 24 volt amp hour consumption per day is/was 88 for the refrigerator and 114 for the freezer. The power provided by the panels is nowhere enough.
So when I fire up the Cummins a 400-ampere Niehoff alternator saturation charges the series 6 volt batteries. Starting amperage approx 160, I had for years relied on a Yamaha 5500 diesel generator and an Associated 24 volt commercial battery charger which provided almost 100 amperes. It was a 240vac charger.
I had to recharge every day and a half to 2 days while parked on a remote beach in Quintana Roo.
Diesel in Mexico was .15 a gallon then but the drive to resupply fuel was a deal breaker. The toad was a flat towed 1 ton, with a stake flatbed. Seven plastic 55 gallon drums. 3 for fuel and 4 for water.
Turned out a homemade ice chest kept fruit and vegetables far fresher than the Vest Frost vegetable bin.
But the freezer maintained -05F. Hard as a brick frozen veggies and tropical fruit.
Bottom line for me, after surviving almost three months in 95F and 85% daytimes, and 75F and 98% R/H humidity I spent at least 2 nights per week outside in a hammock.
The answer would have been an aircraft carrier's worth of solar panels but back then Kyocera panels cost > $6.00 per watt. And double the amp hours.
When hurricane Gilbert chased me to 7,000 ft elevation it ended the "Gteat Experiment II" The first episode ended with food poisoning with a new Norcold gas refrigerator freezer.
Benefit/cost ratio: I skin dived, snorkled the deserted Chinchorro reef almost every day, with a Mexican lobster diver.
Nothing I know of is "free".
A pair of 21 CF custom Vestfrost 24 volt appliances.
Insulation panels of 2" thickness were preloaded into place then the appliances. The rear was sprayed with closed cell foam beneath the condensors.
The ventilation is floor to ceiling with a pair of manual controlled Pabst fans. 1.4 amperes at 24 volts.
After more than 20 years the 6 solar panels did their best to maintain but all four 380 A/H L16 batteries are shot. A pair of Megawatts can be used for umbilical power post refrigerator and freezer recharging.
Double the wattage to equal 12 volt wattage
The average 24 volt amp hour consumption per day is/was 88 for the refrigerator and 114 for the freezer. The power provided by the panels is nowhere enough.
So when I fire up the Cummins a 400-ampere Niehoff alternator saturation charges the series 6 volt batteries. Starting amperage approx 160, I had for years relied on a Yamaha 5500 diesel generator and an Associated 24 volt commercial battery charger which provided almost 100 amperes. It was a 240vac charger.
I had to recharge every day and a half to 2 days while parked on a remote beach in Quintana Roo.
Diesel in Mexico was .15 a gallon then but the drive to resupply fuel was a deal breaker. The toad was a flat towed 1 ton, with a stake flatbed. Seven plastic 55 gallon drums. 3 for fuel and 4 for water.
Turned out a homemade ice chest kept fruit and vegetables far fresher than the Vest Frost vegetable bin.
But the freezer maintained -05F. Hard as a brick frozen veggies and tropical fruit.
Bottom line for me, after surviving almost three months in 95F and 85% daytimes, and 75F and 98% R/H humidity I spent at least 2 nights per week outside in a hammock.
The answer would have been an aircraft carrier's worth of solar panels but back then Kyocera panels cost > $6.00 per watt. And double the amp hours.
When hurricane Gilbert chased me to 7,000 ft elevation it ended the "Gteat Experiment II" The first episode ended with food poisoning with a new Norcold gas refrigerator freezer.
Benefit/cost ratio: I skin dived, snorkled the deserted Chinchorro reef almost every day, with a Mexican lobster diver.
Nothing I know of is "free".
