Post by joecamper on Feb 11, 2012 16:04:01 GMT -5
I am starting from scratch and am bringing many 2nd hand components from the bus conversion industry into the project.
The term 50amp is really quite misleading because what it gives you is 2 legs of 50 or 100 amps. When you jump from 30 to 50 amp your not just going up 20 amp your gaining 70 amp.
When available it makes any load management while camping a complete non issue. When you are at a 30 amp campsite the leg for the camper would be on the 30 amp breaker and the leg for the air conditioners and heaters would plug into the 20 amp outlet making 50 amp with the correct adaptor or simply go down with a 50 to 30 amp adaptor like the rest of the crowd or down another to 20 when nessessary.
Putting costs aside, because most of the components I'm thinking of using I already have sitting in the garage, I really do not see a downside to wiring a small trailer with 50 amp.
1 leg would be dedicated to the air conditioner and electric heaters and the other leg would be the rest of the camper and have that leg going thru a 2800 w Heart inverter/charger . With 2 8-d batteries will sit in trays in front on either side of the tongue.
I am seeing flexible solar panels more and more and am waiting for someone to offer an awning that is made of the stuff.
With a propane fridge and some over sized water and waste tanks this design would afford boon docking without power as long as the water holds out. Something else that is often lacking.
With 2800 watts of inverter along with the TV and stereo you could power a good size microwave, coffee pot, toaster, blender, blow dryer, curling iron and all those, intermittent, big power draws that really need to be on board to make the camper complete and and comfortable.
With a few good solar panels and a charge wire coming from the tow vehicle if you utilize the inverter only on when nessessary verses constant on there would be more than enough time by daytime to recharge the misc. intermittent loads your making during the day and the 3 or 4 hrs of TV by night and you would not need a generator unless you wanted air conditioning.
The inverter could be embedded into the trlr it has an auto switch on it so as soon as it gets a/c power into it either thru shore power or generator it auto switches to a 30amp charger. When you pull the power from it it switches back to invert so quick you do not even notice it.
Never saw a trlr set up like this has anybody else?
The term 50amp is really quite misleading because what it gives you is 2 legs of 50 or 100 amps. When you jump from 30 to 50 amp your not just going up 20 amp your gaining 70 amp.
When available it makes any load management while camping a complete non issue. When you are at a 30 amp campsite the leg for the camper would be on the 30 amp breaker and the leg for the air conditioners and heaters would plug into the 20 amp outlet making 50 amp with the correct adaptor or simply go down with a 50 to 30 amp adaptor like the rest of the crowd or down another to 20 when nessessary.
Putting costs aside, because most of the components I'm thinking of using I already have sitting in the garage, I really do not see a downside to wiring a small trailer with 50 amp.
1 leg would be dedicated to the air conditioner and electric heaters and the other leg would be the rest of the camper and have that leg going thru a 2800 w Heart inverter/charger . With 2 8-d batteries will sit in trays in front on either side of the tongue.
I am seeing flexible solar panels more and more and am waiting for someone to offer an awning that is made of the stuff.
With a propane fridge and some over sized water and waste tanks this design would afford boon docking without power as long as the water holds out. Something else that is often lacking.
With 2800 watts of inverter along with the TV and stereo you could power a good size microwave, coffee pot, toaster, blender, blow dryer, curling iron and all those, intermittent, big power draws that really need to be on board to make the camper complete and and comfortable.
With a few good solar panels and a charge wire coming from the tow vehicle if you utilize the inverter only on when nessessary verses constant on there would be more than enough time by daytime to recharge the misc. intermittent loads your making during the day and the 3 or 4 hrs of TV by night and you would not need a generator unless you wanted air conditioning.
The inverter could be embedded into the trlr it has an auto switch on it so as soon as it gets a/c power into it either thru shore power or generator it auto switches to a 30amp charger. When you pull the power from it it switches back to invert so quick you do not even notice it.
Never saw a trlr set up like this has anybody else?