solar power for dry camping & cpap machine

SoundGuy wrote:
The better solution is to either hardwire the inverter .............

I did, and now when I lose power in the middle of the night all I have to do is

Sam Spade wrote:
The MUCH better solution is to run critical systems directly off the batteries or a small full time inverter.

That's what I do and now if I lose power in the middle of the night I have to do.......EXACTLY NOTHING. :Z

This is camping, I have nothing in the trailer that is "critical". All the regular built in "important" devices - fridge, furnace, lights, water heater, etc - continue running if I lose shore power, nothing to do with the inverter. If I want to use "optional" items like the coffee machine (critical first thing in the morning!) or toaster all I have to do is roll over in bed and hit the inverter's remote and I have instant power to those dedicated receptacles I installed. Yeah, terrible amount of effort to raise my digit to the remote. :R