Running AC on battery power
For those days when the pets have to stay in the RV, and the CG charges extra for electricity. Is it safe to unplug the shore power while you're out while leaving the AC on for the pets and then plug...
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Since we're talking about extreme examples...
What the OP asked is possible. There are plenty of expedition vehicle owners that use a small-ish A/C unit (typically a household window-mounted type) in combination with large solar array, a bank of batteries, and a 2-3kW inverter to keep their rigs cool... and they never plug into shore power or run a generator.
I can and often do operate my roof-top A/C without starting the (gasoline) generator or connecting to shore-power... I just power it from my inverter. Of course, due to the modest size of my solar and battery systems, I am limited to about 3 hours of A/C run-time. After that I have no choice but to re-charge my batteries from a 115Vac source.
Unfortunately any the solar/battery/inverter solution is going to be far more expensive than the extra charge campground is going to have for power use.
-Mark
What the OP asked is possible. There are plenty of expedition vehicle owners that use a small-ish A/C unit (typically a household window-mounted type) in combination with large solar array, a bank of batteries, and a 2-3kW inverter to keep their rigs cool... and they never plug into shore power or run a generator.
I can and often do operate my roof-top A/C without starting the (gasoline) generator or connecting to shore-power... I just power it from my inverter. Of course, due to the modest size of my solar and battery systems, I am limited to about 3 hours of A/C run-time. After that I have no choice but to re-charge my batteries from a 115Vac source.
Unfortunately any the solar/battery/inverter solution is going to be far more expensive than the extra charge campground is going to have for power use.
-Mark
