Acampingwewillgo
USA
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Some great advice here....as I was only thinking about this for a fairly specific application, using current roof top units would probably work for the temporary situation Im speaking of providing I have enough Solar/Battery capacity. Id go the Mini Split route too if I had a notion of where to put the condenser on the MH but only as an additional cooling unit. Thanks for the comments.
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Cptnvideo
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Its 4:20 pm here near Williams, AZ. Running the middle A/C on "Cool Hi Auto". Solar is supplying 50 amps and the batteries are supplying 75 amps. We only need A/C for 2 or 3 hours per day at 6800' elevation, so no generator or fancy A/C needed.
We were down 421 ah this morning and fully charged this afternoon by the time we needed A/C.
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ktmrfs
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theoldwizard1 wrote:ktmrfs wrote:
would be nice if rooftop RV AC units were around 15 or so, with decently low LRA so they would easily start and run on a 2Kwatt inverter generator. Best rooftops I've seen are still around 10A vs. 13 or so.
Microsair EasyStart solves that problem !
There is no proprietary technology in an EasyDtart, so why don't all RV A/C units have this. Only a couple of $ to build it in ?
Mostly. While the easy start makes it no problem to start the AC on a 2Kw generator, see what happens around 4-6K ft altitude. Many of the 2000VA generators run out of steam by that altitude on a hot day and will overload.
Our Honda 2000 would as would my brothers. However, the honda 2200 has not problem even at 8000ft. the 25% larger motor lets it develop the full rated power at high altitude.
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