Gjac
Aug 29, 2022Explorer III
Will this work
Last year my genset stopped working in my MH. I rarely used it anyway except to exercise it. However, I did use it whenever we had a power outage due to a storm to keep my refrigerators cold. I have gas hot water and a wood burning stove for heat if outage happens in the winter months so the only thing, I need power for is the refrigerators. I was thinking about buying a small generator then after reading several threads about Jackery's or making your own Li battery backup systems. It started me thinking about what I already have at home to make something that I would only use once a year or less. I have a 2019 Toyota Rav4 Hybrid car, a MH with 2 6v GC batteries with a 1000-watt MSW inverter already in place. The hybrid has a large HV traction battery and a small accessary battery 55 AH's. The large battery starts the ice engine, which then charges the traction battery from 20% SOC to 80% SOC then shuts off. So, my thought was to just back up my hybrid to MH and jump the hybrid 12v accessory battery to the house batteries, plug an extension cord into the inverter and connect it to my refer. The car has an 8.8KWH generator and when the HV (201V) traction battery gets low the engine will start to recharge the HV battery and supply voltage to the 12v accessory battery. The devil is usually in the details, so am I missing anything?