Dry camping and solar power
I have a 20ft keystones hideout 177hls. I will be dry camping for 6 months from may to October. The only major issue I'm running into is powering my a/c unit. I understand that my 12v battery won't po...
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donn0128 wrote:
Not a bit. You simply cannot pack enough batteries into the trailer to run an AC unit. As for solar? Nope, not even enoigh room. Do yourself a favor and give the idea up.
Now, if you do want solar, you need to figure out how many amp hours your going to use per 24 hours and then come up with a plan to half that amount. Now you need to figure out how many batyeries your going to need to do that. Then you can come up with a plan for solar. 250W of solar panels is posibly good for 4 golf cart batteries and maybe 200 total amps per day.
Actually you can, but it costs. Both the Wynn's and Technomadia run AC off solar plus lithium setups, the Wynn's did it in their RV and now their Catamaran, Technomadia in their Class A. You're not going to run it all day, but a few hours during the peak of the daily heat is possible.
