Battery (DC) to Shore Power Wiring
Hi. First time post. Nice to meet you all. My wife and I just bought a 1965 Shasta Compact travel trailer. The trailer is already wired for shore power (AC) and that system is working fine. When we...
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Hi jnagy, I'm a 25 year veteran of pop ups, now camping in a small motorhome.
Our popups only had one or two lights, (12 volts) and the later 1992 one had a heater and converter. We used a portable booster battery to power the popup and charged it in our van while travelling. We never plugged in to 120 volts and used propane to boil our kettle. The modest use of electricity enabled us to camp for extended periods in remote areas.
If you want to go boondocking you would probably find it beneficial to change your lights back to 12 volt LED lights to eliminate the inverter. An inverter producing 1500 watts of AC would draw 150 amps from the batteries, if they are able to supply that much, and require some very heavy wiring. Boiling the kettle that way would mean hours of battery charging.
We now have a 100 watt solar panel that keeps our batteries charged all the time. No generator and no shore power needed.
Our popups only had one or two lights, (12 volts) and the later 1992 one had a heater and converter. We used a portable booster battery to power the popup and charged it in our van while travelling. We never plugged in to 120 volts and used propane to boil our kettle. The modest use of electricity enabled us to camp for extended periods in remote areas.
If you want to go boondocking you would probably find it beneficial to change your lights back to 12 volt LED lights to eliminate the inverter. An inverter producing 1500 watts of AC would draw 150 amps from the batteries, if they are able to supply that much, and require some very heavy wiring. Boiling the kettle that way would mean hours of battery charging.
We now have a 100 watt solar panel that keeps our batteries charged all the time. No generator and no shore power needed.
