My New Solar System Overview.
My New Solar System Overview Yes, it cost a pretty penny and took about 3 days to plan, remove the old system, and install the new system. 675 watts solar, 400 AH Lithium batteries with heat and col...
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Grit dog wrote:
Your TV and laptops use $100/mo in electricity?
I was thinking the same thing. LOL
Even with high rates of PSE (Puget Sound Energy) I can't envision a big screen TV and laptops even using a quarter of that much power in a given month, even if left on 24/7.
I put Battleborns in my truck camper. A few months later (early 2021) I decided to jump on the DC to DC charger bandwagon. I looked at the Redarc unit. I wasn't too fond of it because it had pigtail wires attached to it. I then discovered that Renogy had a DC to DC charger. It used terminals for the DC connections. I ordered it. After getting it, I realized I really had no space for something that size in my AF 992 so I returned it a few days later. I think before I returned it, I somehow discovered the Victron Orion unit, so that's what I ordered next.
I went with the isolated version. I already had the wiring in place from the truck to the camper, so all I had to do was reroute that wiring to the Orion and then install new pigtails from the Orion to the batteries.
With this setup, most of the time I can run the fridge on inverter power while driving. On long drive days in hot weather I will have to revert to propane on the fridge if the batteries start to deplete. With the Victron gear being bluetooth, I can keep tabs on the batteries during the drive, and shutdown the inverter remotely (via the Bluetooth app) if needed, to force the fridge to propane operation
