Host Mammoth camper

Is there an update on your new Host Teagan?

burningman wrote:
Wait, you're planning on running your A/C on a 3000-watt inverter?
Where will the inverter get all that power?

LiFePo4 battery bank with 600 usable Ah. May increase from there if needed. Plenty of room in the basement.

burningman wrote:
Wait, you're planning on running your A/C on a 3000-watt inverter?
Where will the inverter get all that power?

From the Inverter fairy.......:S

Sent off email to dealer and factory, no response probably because of holiday
Weekend. My big thing is wanted everything done by factory, now l am 9 hours
Away from both.

Wait, you're planning on running your A/C on a 3000-watt inverter?
Where will the inverter get all that power?

Teagan's camper wrote:
Is possible this is 13,500 ? The book that came with unit list only 3.5 kw for 1 unit.
If it was 11,000 kw why will it not work, the first few day we hookups with 30 amp
Service no problem with A/C.

I'm not sure, but interested as we have the same A/C on order with our new Host. We will be using a 3000 watt inverter to run it. The dealer should have spent a fair amount of time going through the camper with you. Showing you everything on the build sheet and actually using the genset with the microwave, the A/C, how to use the solar charge controller etc... A truck camper isn't likely to have a genset any larger than 2500 watts so the air should be sized to that accordingly. There are soft starts you can get to make staring the air easier. The unit shows less than 1400 watts required to run so the 2500 watt generator should be fine once it gets over the initial higher amount needed to get the compressor started.

Who have you talked to so far? Host or the dealer? The dealer should be the first place to go and get things straightened out. If they can't help than you should call Host and find out why the A/c Manual has indicated a higher power generator needed than what was supplied.

Is possible this is 13,500 ? The book that came with unit list only 3.5 kw for 1 unit.
If it was 11,000 kw why will it not work, the first few day we hookups with 30 amp
Service no problem with A/C.

Teagan's camper wrote:
No, $1300.00 for solar is not prep it's the whole thing. As for generator it's
2500 kw, but the A/C model # on my manual is 13,500 btu. The book for A/C
has minimum gen size of 3500 kw, this what's in my package. The A/C I
ordered is 11,000 low profile A/C, which is on there build sheet. They said
It's on them for solar, but A/C problem they haven't answered. The holiday
Weekend cut short due to high temps no hookups , wife couldn't handle
the heat and the dog didn't like it either.

1300 is the retail price for a 160 watt solar panel and charge controller. If you paid for that and it is missing. Not cool. The Air Conditioning should be a penguin 2. It is confusing as the description list it as 13k but 11k in the specs.

https://www.dometic.com/en-us/us/products/climate/air-conditioners/air-conditioners-for-rvs/dometic-penguin-ii-_-20692

In either case it sounds like you need to go back to the dealer. Something is definitely wrong if the manufacturer supplied genset won't bump the manufacturer supplied air conditioner.

No, $1300.00 for solar is not prep it's the whole thing. As for generator it's
2500 kw, but the A/C model # on my manual is 13,500 btu. The book for A/C
has minimum gen size of 3500 kw, this what's in my package. The A/C I
ordered is 11,000 low profile A/C, which is on there build sheet. They said
It's on them for solar, but A/C problem they haven't answered. The holiday
Weekend cut short due to high temps no hookups , wife couldn't handle
the heat and the dog didn't like it either.

SidecarFlip wrote:

Teagan's camper wrote:
Sorry to report , all the good reviews on Host camper didn't happen for me.
Paid solar option find don't have panel on roof, 11,000 btu air trips generator
breaker. Did phone order for this TC , without seeing it first . Probably wouldn't
purchase if I had seen it, but reviews were all good on how Host takes care of
customer. Lots of little things I can fix myself, but thought I was buying the top
of line doesn't seem that way.
Thx

Sure you didn't pay for 'solar prep' instead?

This is probably right. Going through the build there was an option for solar that included "prep" That is essentially pre-wiring from a roof to the battery box to later easily install some panels without having to figure out how to route them. That is an option. Just as generator prep is an option even though it doesn't include the generator.