solar power for dry camping & cpap machine

Some suggestions:

go with the grape controller.

drop kick the Bogart and use a Victron monitor.

go to a 2000 watt inverter from Outback or Victron, or else drop down to the Xantrex prowatt line ($347.50) from best converters)

Double the battery bank size and consider going to 12 volt jars if you intend to run 1000 watts via inverter.

Replace the manual transfer switch with male and female plugs.

allen8106 wrote:
For what it's worth I am installing a solar system on my 5ver at about $1,811 in cost.

4 - 130 watt panels used from Craigslist. ($65 ea., total $260)
2 - Crown 240 ah 6v batteries ($135 ea., total $270)
1 - Magnum Energy MMS1012 inverter ($737)
1 - Morningstar TS-45 Charge Controller ($143)
1 - Bogart Engineering TM-2030-RV Battery Monitor ($158)
1 - Morningstar battery temp sensor ($25)
1 - Magnum Energy inverter remote ($47)
1 - GE 60 amp disconnect w/fuses ($21)
1 - Generac 60 amp manual transfer switch ($100)
1 - 500amp shunt ($34)
1 - 200 amp DC fuse ($16)

So far I have installed the batteries and the battery monitor. I have purchased everything else and am just formulating my install plan and panel locations. I am fabricating my own panel mounts, I have developed my own wiring schematic and am doing all the install myself.

I expect to be able to run everything except the microwave and the AC without ever running a generator or being hooked up to shore power, my wife also uses a CPAP.

So why all this. To show you that a good solar system install can be done for considerably less than you think and to let you know that what you wish to run in your rig can be done within reason. You'll never run the AC on solar and you'll not likely run the microwave unless you have a really big battery bank and inverter but should be able to run everything else.