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Originally Posted by Bill
Mike -
I am not an expert, but you will hear from the experts shortly.
The short answer is that the solar panels charge your batteries, and the batteries send DC power to the inverter. The inverter converts the DC power from the batteries to AC power, which is then used to power up the appliances and outlets. The air conditioner uses a rather enormous amount of power, so unless you have a LOT of batteries and a LOT of panels, running the AC may not be feasible.
As a quick benchmark, it is barely possible to run the air conditioner from a 2000 watt generator. Do you envision having well over 2000 watts of panels?
And now, over to the experts !!
Bill
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Bill pretty well summed it all up. Running the AC from the inverter for more than 5-10 minutes a day is simply not feasible unless you cover every inch of the trailer with solar cells and spend $6K in lipo batteries..
Most of us that boondock run about 200W-400W of solar panels and 200-300AH of battery storage. Then we run a generator for the AC, microwave. A 2000-3000W (pure sine wave) inverter is practical on that size set-up for that 1st pot of coffee in the morning or running the microwave for 10 minutes or so.