Oct-13-2016 12:12 PM
Nov-01-2016 03:50 PM
Nov-01-2016 09:44 AM
MrWizard wrote:
There are very few 15 amp breakers in shore power circuits, (some residential ceiling lights)
What is normal is 12ga wiring and 20 amp CB feeding a string of 15 amp duplex outlets
It is also common to find the 15 amp duplex on a shore pedestal to be on a 20 amp breaker
Mexico Wanderer wrote:
each family has a unique style of living
Oct-20-2016 10:04 AM
Oct-20-2016 06:40 AM
pianotuna wrote:
Hi BFL13,
Actually the Magnum inverter/chargers can do 125 amps @ 12 volts from an 1800 watt shore power supply--so they should be able to do that from a 2k generator.BFL13 wrote:
GordonThree wrote:
"My Magnum charger will keep pushing high amps right to a 99% state of charge... With a 2000 watt generator it takes about 4.5 hours to recharge my 800ah bank from 50%."
I would like to know how this could be done. I can't get the numbers to work.
I believe a 2000w gen can't run a 100 amp charger that is PF corrected, but it can possibly run a 75 amp non-PF corrected one.
Oct-19-2016 09:51 PM
BFL13 wrote:
GordonThree wrote:
"My Magnum charger will keep pushing high amps right to a 99% state of charge... With a 2000 watt generator it takes about 4.5 hours to recharge my 800ah bank from 50%."
I would like to know how this could be done. I can't get the numbers to work.
I believe a 2000w gen can't run a 100 amp charger that is PF corrected, but it can possibly run a 75 amp non-PF corrected one.
Oct-17-2016 06:23 PM
wclogger1 wrote:
Exactly, we are in the same basic area and use oursolar all the time, microwave on a regular basis. I have 535 watts in various panels, 315 ah of agm batterries,a pwm controller, a trimetric monitor
A 2000 watt mod sine wave inverter. We rarely use our generator and when we were south last winter at one stretch. We went 60 days, no generator no hook ups. We use blow dryer, tv, sat dish, computers.
The people that are paying 5 to 10 K for a solar install are being seriosly beat up there are way more reasonable ways of doing it.
BobStirCrazy wrote:
if you want to do what you stated in your original question then no solar wont work, but with a slight modification , for example forget the ac, use propane for heat fridge and cooking, and AC should keep up fine. I just bit the bullet and put 320 watts of solar on my new 5th and in September up north here in Canada where the solar day is short and the sun is low my solar topped off my batteries every day, which I found out only because the power at the campground for some reason didn't run my converter. I have 470 AH of batteries and in the am they would be down to 12.4 - 12.5V and when the sun went down they would be full again and that was with the furnace running 24/7 as it was getting down to 33 degrees at night and only 45ish during the day.
Steve
Oct-17-2016 06:22 PM
Oct-17-2016 12:58 PM
StirCrazy wrote:
if you want to do what you stated in your original question then no solar wont work, but with a slight modification , for example forget the ac, use propane for heat fridge and cooking, and AC should keep up fine. I just bit the bullet and put 320 watts of solar on my new 5th and in September up north here in Canada where the solar day is short and the sun is low my solar topped off my batteries every day, which I found out only because the power at the campground for some reason didn't run my converter. I have 470 AH of batteries and in the am they would be down to 12.4 - 12.5V and when the sun went down they would be full again and that was with the furnace running 24/7 as it was getting down to 33 degrees at night and only 45ish during the day.
Steve
Oct-14-2016 01:40 PM
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Like running around in a crew of smoke jumpers with a cartridge fire extinguisher yelling "This'll Work! This'll Work!"
A house in San Jose del Cabo, Baja California had a plethora of roof panels. Sixty three to be exact. I talked to the owner. "We have 3 freezers, two refrigerators, satellite TV, fans, lights, and a water pressure booster pump. But when we run the air conditioner, we still have to start the generator. In the summer with two consecutive cloudy days we have to start the generator on the third day".
The year was 1996
Oct-14-2016 09:59 AM
Oct-14-2016 09:01 AM
StirCrazy wrote:
if you want to do what you stated in your original question then no solar wont work, but with a slight modification , for example forget the ac, use propane for heat fridge and cooking, and AC should keep up fine. I just bit the bullet and put 320 watts of solar on my new 5th and in September up north here in Canada where the solar day is short and the sun is low my solar topped off my batteries every day, which I found out only because the power at the campground for some reason didn't run my converter. I have 470 AH of batteries and in the am they would be down to 12.4 - 12.5V and when the sun went down they would be full again and that was with the furnace running 24/7 as it was getting down to 33 degrees at night and only 45ish during the day.
Steve
Oct-14-2016 08:48 AM
Oct-14-2016 07:34 AM
Chowan wrote:
Why go solar if generator/propane is still a must? After looking seriously at fitting rv (when we get it) with solar I am beginning to realize that solar cant keep up with what I want it to do. I want to have a res. refer, tv and sat, computers and cell phone. I want to run AC and heat and cook with electric. Doing all this, I dont see how solar capable to do all of this. maybe with 2000w and many batteries. Am I wrong. I know I can go with propane for refer and cooking and heating and run a gen for ac/tv. SO, If I have to use gen/propane why spend $5k-10k for solar? Is noise the only reason? Cool a reason? Thanks for sharing your point of view.
Oct-14-2016 07:21 AM