solar power for dry camping & cpap machine
***Link Removed******Link Removed***Hello, I recently purchased a 2006 Thor Wanderer 30' travel trailer. I was disappointed that I could only run my cpap machine when the trailer is plugged in. I al...
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TxGregory wrote:
And for that matter if someone turned on the Air conditioner, it would trip the inverter. Oh, and there is the microwave. . .
Whereas, if I go with something that will put out close to 30 Amp, 120 volt, then I would not have to be so careful. . .
I used to design and build IT, and we always had to be careful about bottlenecks. I don't want my inverter to be a bottleneck. . .
I saw a post from someone with a configuration similar to mine and that is what they said their did. If I am wrong, I would sure like to find out before hand! :)
Your one battery is the bottleneck. No way you can draw more than 300 amps DC to get your 30 amps AC. Trying to run the AC won't run the battery down because the AC will never start. The voltage will drop and the inverter will under-volt and drop off line. Likewise with the microwave or any other high draw appliances.
Without going to exotic batteries and many solar panels running the AC is a pipe dream. Microwave is doable with at least 4 batteries.
