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Almot
May 09, 2014Explorer III
mena661 wrote:Almot wrote:We could do this back when we had the 5th wheel as the standby draws were an order of magnitude lower.
I don't have 600 AH bank, but if I had, I could live a week without any solar at all, keeping rig warm and with as many hot meals and coffees a day as I wish. When there is more than one person in the rig, things are more difficult to control though.
Standby draws can not be high, I don't know how many devices one must have to exceed 8-9 AH standby. If you could live off 45 AH a day including 1A standby, you could - with some effort - make it today on 45 AH including 8 AH standby.
But if you mean those real "standby" like radio, TV and LP sensor, and also idling current of always-on inverter (not Off current but no-load current), and semi-permanently running LP fridge circuit, then it will be more.
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