Just bought our first new trailer!

Slimline wrote:
Ideally we can book hydro sites to utilize the AC, it will be a welcome creature comfort this coming summer especially with a pregnant wife. Before we had trailers we would go on 4 and 5 day atv trips in tents on the good old earth in tents and sleeping bags. Times change and with the family trailers sure are nice.

Yes they are ... and my bet is once you get used to all those amenities you'll really start enjoying them, which in turn means you'll be looking for electric campsites whenever you can get them. Everyone does, that's why electric sites in the Ontario provincial park system are GONE once that 5 month reservations window comes up. Unfortunately, on average only ~ 1/3rd of the sites in the Ontario provincial park system are electric but at least the govt has finally woken up to the fact they can sell more sites if they're all electric, Inverhuron PP being a great example. Point being, if your new norm is electric campsites you'd be far better off IMO to invest in a surge protector / EMS rather than throw $$$ away on a solar system you don't need. An EMS will go a long way towards protecting your trailer's very expensive electrical system from a variety of anomalies that you won't be able to avoid, particularly excessively low voltage. Your choice of course but unless you're committed to extensive dry camping you'll never realize full return on your investment in solar.