NRALIFR wrote:
Well, I’ll be interested to hear about the details of your install. I considered doing the same thing myself when it became clear that upgrading the 12v charge wires alone wasn’t cutting it. The technical aspects of installing an inverter were proving to be more challenging than a DC-DC charger. The 4 gauge wires were already in place on the truck at that point.
Because of the people, pets, and gear we haul in the cab, there wasn’t really a good place to install an inverter there. I also couldn’t come up with a place under the hood to mount one, and an inverter that can survive that invironment is going to be more $$$’s. I was considering a much smaller inverter than you will need, I’m sure. You may want to add alternator temperature monitoring to the features you need on the inverter. I recall seeing some marine units that would do that, and automatically drop out if the alternator gets too hot.
Good luck, and keep us posted. I’ve never seen a TC with that many solar panels on the roof. Our campers are pretty close to the same size, but due to the stuff that’s already up there, AC, vents and such, I’d have trouble fitting two panels.
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When you did your setup did you have a single alternator or dual alternators, with the 4 gauge you should have been able to pull 80 amps. What kind of amps where you seeing, was lack of alternator capacity the problem?
