Power outlets not working on battery power
Our 2016 heartland trailer plug outlets do not work when I'm on battery power only shore power. Is there anything I can do to change this?
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This is a typical 30A RV Power Distribution Block Diagram. Please note how everything is connected either to the 120VAC Distribution Panel or the 12VDC Power Distribution Panel. This is the 'HEART' of your RV unit...
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This shows how the 120VAC and 12VDC Electrical Power is made available for your on-board appliances, power outlets, and systems... The RV Concept is to run your installed appliances and systems when you are on Shore Power or Generator or just running the few required items when just running off the battery. The typical battery is small in size and is not a large enough source to run all of your installed appliance so only just the necessary items are made available to you..
As stated above if you want more items to run in your trailer when off-grid somewhere you will need to run a larger generator or add more batteries to run a large POWER INVERTER...
My current battery which is now almost consumed and needs replacements has been at 255AH Capacity since around 2009 and this small inscrease only allows us to run our Home entertainment items and just a few additional small wattage 120VAC items. We get to light up our off-grid area outside and have just a few additional low wattage items we like to have along with us and then around 8AM the next morning we run out 2KW Generator with the trailer shore power cable plugged into it to run the on-board converter/charger unit to recharge our 50% depleted 255Ah Battery bank backup to its 90% charge state so we can do all of this all over again for the next day/night off the batteries. This takes three hours of generator run times for us each morning. Of course some places do not allow the use of the portable generator so when this happen I have to remove my batteries and take them down the road somewhere where I can run my portable generator on the side of the road somewhere using my portable 40AMP smart mode charger. This takes more than three hours of run time to recharge my batteries... The rule of thumb is to have at least 17A to 20A of available 12VDC Smart Mode Charging Power for each battery you are having to charge.
Been doing this routine since 2009 and it is second nature now for using my OFF-ROAD trailer off-grid without shore power.
Roy Ken
Google Image
This shows how the 120VAC and 12VDC Electrical Power is made available for your on-board appliances, power outlets, and systems... The RV Concept is to run your installed appliances and systems when you are on Shore Power or Generator or just running the few required items when just running off the battery. The typical battery is small in size and is not a large enough source to run all of your installed appliance so only just the necessary items are made available to you..
As stated above if you want more items to run in your trailer when off-grid somewhere you will need to run a larger generator or add more batteries to run a large POWER INVERTER...
My current battery which is now almost consumed and needs replacements has been at 255AH Capacity since around 2009 and this small inscrease only allows us to run our Home entertainment items and just a few additional small wattage 120VAC items. We get to light up our off-grid area outside and have just a few additional low wattage items we like to have along with us and then around 8AM the next morning we run out 2KW Generator with the trailer shore power cable plugged into it to run the on-board converter/charger unit to recharge our 50% depleted 255Ah Battery bank backup to its 90% charge state so we can do all of this all over again for the next day/night off the batteries. This takes three hours of generator run times for us each morning. Of course some places do not allow the use of the portable generator so when this happen I have to remove my batteries and take them down the road somewhere where I can run my portable generator on the side of the road somewhere using my portable 40AMP smart mode charger. This takes more than three hours of run time to recharge my batteries... The rule of thumb is to have at least 17A to 20A of available 12VDC Smart Mode Charging Power for each battery you are having to charge.
Been doing this routine since 2009 and it is second nature now for using my OFF-ROAD trailer off-grid without shore power.
Roy Ken
