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Post by monkey2323 on Mar 5, 2023 20:15:14 GMT -5
HELLO. i have a 2021 Venture Sporttrek 332VBH. and i know it does have a solar panel on the roof to power the lights but i would like to know before i get a head of myself. i want to run a separate solar hook up with 120ah batteries with a 3 or 4 - 100 watt solar panels. hooked up to a 2000 w inverter. can i plug my trailer into the inverter to run my trailer. and for the a/c i plan on using SoftStartRV to keep the amps down. so i don't drain the batteries to fast. i do plan on using this completely off grid
so tell me what you think of this and if you think it would work.
thanks.
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Post by earlelaine on Mar 6, 2023 8:25:41 GMT -5
Well for one thing a 2000watt inverter will not run your A/C or microwave oven. The A/C will be the the most power hog. A/C run for a long time on and off if it's hot out. You would need a 3000watt inverter and Lithium batteries. An expert on here might be able to help you more. Question like what size A/C a 13,500btu or a 15000btu, can't run A/C and microwave at the same time and you will need to run your water heater and refrigerator on propane. Also have a 3000watt or plus generator that can run on regular gas and propane as a backup.
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Post by navylcdr on Mar 6, 2023 9:01:45 GMT -5
HELLO. i have a 2021 Venture Sporttrek 332VBH. and i know it does have a solar panel on the roof to power the lights but i would like to know before i get a head of myself. i want to run a separate solar hook up with 120ah batteries with a 3 or 4 - 100 watt solar panels. hooked up to a 2000 w inverter. can i plug my trailer into the inverter to run my trailer. and for the a/c i plan on using SoftStartRV to keep the amps down. so i don't drain the batteries to fast. i do plan on using this completely off grid so tell me what you think of this and if you think it would work. thanks. A running 13,500 BTU A/C is 1600 Watts, 120v AC (about 13.5 amps). That means the inverter is going to pulling 149 amps from the batteries. How many 120Ah batteries are you planning on hooking together to run the A/C? A single 120Ah lead-acid deep cycle battery will be good for maybe 20 minutes of A/C. You would get about 45 minutes of A/C out of a 120Ah Lithium Ion Battery. A soft start A/C unit only reduces the momentary starting surge current, it does not reduce running amps. Basically, you don't fun A/C from batteries and inverter. You run A/C from a generator. With 400 watts of solar you get about 10 amps in direct sunlight. So, if you pulled 80 amps out of a 120 aH battery, it would take 8 hours of direct sunlight on 400 watt solar panels to recharge it. A lot of people think, "I'll just get a great big inverter, plug my trailer into it and it will be just like plugged into shore power!" True - but only for about 15 minutes. |
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Post by earlelaine on Mar 7, 2023 11:48:09 GMT -5
What navylcdr said is correct. I once had a Honda 2000wat generator and with everything electrical I could turn off my generator would not run my smaller A/C 13,500btu A/C. I would turn on the A/C and the Honda Gen would error out after about 10 seconds because it could not handle the finial high amperage. A "Soft Start" device on the A/C would have maybe let the gen run but that's really hurting a 2000wat gen for continuous operation. I upgraded to a 2800wat generator and all is good.
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