Going solar
Am considering installing two extra batterys an a 100 watt solar panel a top our Lance 881 . What type of controller an monitor would be needed? Any suggestations on the size an make of the inverter n...
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donn0128 wrote:
Forget trying to power a microwave or anything else that consumes lots of power. Just not practical. A 500 watt inverter will run the TV for several hours.
Power a microwave or other devices that consume "lots of power" is practical and can be done, so long as it's items that are used in shorts durations, like a microwave, hair dryer, coffee maker, etc. An air conditioner, NO.
I run a microwave with an inverter.
Any size inverter over 150 watts will run a TV. It's not the size of the inverter that dictates how long you can run a TV (as some people may think by reading a previous message) it's the size of the battery bank.
If you have at least 200 amp hours of battery capacity, there's no problem running a microwave. I do it every time I go places. Generally it's only a once a day thing.
To run a microwave, you will need a pretty large inverter - 1500 watts or more.
AM Solar is one option: Their website http://amsolar.com/
Read Sleepy's thread here: http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/27916220.cfm
He uses an inverter to power a convection oven.
