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Re: 1983 Fleetwood wilderness
Sorry been away for a time trying to make a living. The previous replies are very helpful. I pulled the Maganatek 40 amp converter and put it through a killawatt and it drew 52 watts only. So I turned the Norcold refer to off and it still froze everything for two days. Needs a thermostat, but I am thinking about pianotuna suggestion to just replace it with a compact 120v bar fridge. The boy is not a boondocker anyway. Then to replace the converter with a Powermax because the Magnatek buzzes ALL the time. Big Big Thanks to everyone!288Views0likes0CommentsRe: 1983 Fleetwood wilderness
Thanks for the reply, Yes I am going to take out the existing 40 amp converter. It may be defective because it runs 24/7 even with the refer and everything else shut down. There are no batteries on the Trailer now but I am restoring a couple of deep cycle 6 volts left over when we changed our off grid battery recently. I will install those at some point. No need as of now. I am going to research converters to see if the newer ones have better power use, it does not seem the converter should be drawing power when nothing is in use. I like the idea of running 12 Volt to the trailer but I just covered the darn ditch, arggh. Thanks for the mention of Sun Electric, prices are good. I have gotten most of my equipment from Northern Arizona Wind/Sun because they are in my area.290Views0likes0Comments1983 Fleetwood wilderness
Hello folks, I really hope you can give me some time and good ideas! We are building an off grid all solar homestead in the southern mountains of NM. (OK, just wait for the part that applies here.) We have currently only 2KW of PV, will be adding another 1.5KW in a few weeks. But my way bi-polar son recently lost all other housing options so we picked up a 1987 travel trailer as noted above and he is happy on the land. What is not OK is that since I trenched and installed an RV hookup (120VAC + water supply and grey water disposal system,- (for blackwater see-http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Water/SolarLoo/SolarLoo.htm) I find that the trailer is pulling over 5 KW in a 24 hour period even if he turns nothing on,(Killawatt measured with everything, even the Norcold turned off.) So it seems obvious that the antique 40 watt converter is the power hog. It is drawing 220 watts 24/7= over 5 KW in 24 hours Now I'm pretty inverter/battery/PV/wire friendly as I have built our power system from the ground up (with many embarassing missteps.) But I have not dealt with RV converters. I don't want to trash the noisy thing as 12VDC is needed for the lights and pump and Ref ( can't get the propane option to work yet but the electric freezes too much) And I never know if he will get cool , get a pickup and join you on the road......... I'm not sure if I should pull the converter plug and add a 12vdc wall wart for the lights( change to led as we use?) /pump/ref or replace the antique converter with something which has low standby use. Any ideas?2.1KViews0likes6Comments
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