Sometimes small systems are plenty
Friday my wife suddenly got the urge to camp. Immediately. All the TT has is the original Group 24 battery, 5w solar to maintain it and a 700w/1500w inverter I've never even run under significant l...
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It's funny the variety of energy systems we have based partly on history and partly on energy density in storage. An all 12v genset and running many systems there would be interesting too, but really it would work better if the systems that need heat had a propane option, including propane powered AC.
Redundancy in the event of a failure is good, but vehicle fuel, propane, AC and DC seems to be a bit much.
A CNG vehicle along with CNG systems would start to make more sense. Or a DC Genset. Or an AC only electrical system with multiple ways to generate AC such as a genset and an inverter.
Me, I'd rather have fewer types of systems, and more devices that run on as many of the systems as possible. The idea of 4 systems and too many devices that only run on 1 or 2 just bugs me. But the economics and availability of AC only devices (gensets, microwaves, air conditioning, some fridges, some water heaters) means it is hard to make a case not to optimize around them.
Jim
Redundancy in the event of a failure is good, but vehicle fuel, propane, AC and DC seems to be a bit much.
A CNG vehicle along with CNG systems would start to make more sense. Or a DC Genset. Or an AC only electrical system with multiple ways to generate AC such as a genset and an inverter.
Me, I'd rather have fewer types of systems, and more devices that run on as many of the systems as possible. The idea of 4 systems and too many devices that only run on 1 or 2 just bugs me. But the economics and availability of AC only devices (gensets, microwaves, air conditioning, some fridges, some water heaters) means it is hard to make a case not to optimize around them.
Jim
