Sometimes small systems are plenty
Friday my wife suddenly got the urge to camp. Immediately. All the TT has is the original Group 24 battery, 5w solar to maintain it and a 700w/1500w inverter I've never even run under significant l...
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HiTech wrote:
O&S it is 106 degrees out. Seriously no interest in not having the AC on. Spent most of our time outside, but once you feel hot and want some AC, nothing else will do.
I can say this again - AC is the only necessary item that you can't have without genny/shorepower. Everything else can either be removed without physical suffering, or run on 12V. Dry foods have now more to offer than just dry fish, and LED lights run forever. Though, there isn't much need in dryfoods when you have either propane fridge or 12V fridge + more solar. In the initial post - long forgotten since :) - somebody wrote about a small 5W system that could run inverter (on a short trip with batteries pre-charged) for "everything we would have wanted except for the AC".
HiTech wrote:
If I had been able to order appliances that could run efficiently from propane for hot water, fridge and heat, I would have gladly paid the energy loss of an efficient small inverter to not run any 12v.
It's easier to not run any 120V, because AC is the only.... etc etc. If you don't need AC on some short trip, then you don't need 120V. People fulltiming in their rigs is a different story, they need power tools or small appliances like vacuum that you can leave home for a day or two, but not for several months. Weekend warriors can live without 120V (unless they need to run AC), the problem is - they don't know how and are not too willing to learn.
