Solar powered generator

srschang wrote:

RTCastillo wrote:


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...

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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)

Thanks for confirming my economics.

You did not mention a/c and/or whether the generator is also running in tandem during the day usage of ALL your appliances.

And have you run your a/c after quiet time and had to rely only on stored solar energy?

Am not here to dispute you, just checking my math, lol. And at any rate, I'm happy for you if you are happy with your solar system.

In fact, I'm dreaming solar too as I find the generator annoying even if I'm not sleeping (am in camping for the peace and quiet) but my calc says a long way to go in the leap of technology in size vs wattage output/energy storage,