Solar powered generator

RTCastillo wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:
People are toying with the ideas for decades.
Everybody has different needs and requirements.
Solars are expensive and lot of RV owners use them for quiet and environment protection, so the cost is not an issue.
For me - I need AC 90% of the time and solar rv systems that could power AC don't exist.
Since I have to run generator whole day, the solar only for battery charging makes no sense.
Even then, the latest addition of $150 inverter generator who runs most of the day on cup of gasoline makes solars very uneconomical.

Works for me too, although, rarely that I use my a/c as most of my camping are on high elevation NP/National Forests. And I'm always out of the campsite anyways.

I was told of that early on and not from my son who works for Musk/Tesla/Solar City. That solar at current technology makes economic sense only for home and large scale commercial applications.

From a long time RVer, solar panel is good only for trickle charging of battery either while on storage on charge maintenance or when the generator is off.

I don't agree. I installed 4 100W panels, a charge controller, 2000W inverter, two 125aH Lifeline AGM batteries, and a 12v compressor fridge last year. We spent 6 weeks traveling from Western NY to Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Northern California, Utah, Colorado, and back home. In a typical day we used the Keurig to make 4 or 5 cups of coffee and the wife drying her hair, both off the inverter. The compressor fridge obviously ran around the clock. Plus all the typical daily electricity usage, lights, TV, waterpump, etc. We plugged into electricity at campgrounds 3 times in the 6 weeks, other than that the solar took care of all our electric needs.

To your economically feasible comment, you're probably correct, I probably had $2500 in the upgrades, although the fridge was half of that. It's not economically feasible. But, the solar took care of all our electrical needs during the trip.
Not just trickle charging the batteries during storage. We spent most of our time at some altitude, so we only needed A/C a couple times during the trip (that's why we stayed in campgrounds a couple nights)