Good Afternoon,
Looking for a bit of advice on an initial setup to start establishing some infrastructure that can be built on down the road. Initially for emergency outages and/or boondocking and later to power most if not all of the house, property, etc. Would like to either turn the old 50 AMP Fifth Wheel into a Solar Generator Trailer that can back feed the house via generator inlet/transfer switch, interlock, etc. OR build out the hand truck mobile generator to do the same to provide power to either and/or truck around the property.
One of the challenges I keep getting wrapped around the axle on with the RV concept is the need for the RV to be both a consumer (when the grid is up) and a producer (when the grid is down). Obviously, this would require a second set of connections and/or transferring some wires around to switch from pulling power to pushing it back into the house (safely), but I was interested in seeing if anyone else has come up with a creative solution for this? Or is the best bet to pull the 50 amp cord off the 50 amp service/shore power inlet and flip it around to a 50 amp service on the RV side into a generator inlet on the house?
Initially thought an EG4 6500EX setup would provide a nice entry point but now that the EG4 18kpv + EG4 Powerpro are out, that looks like a more capable (though more expensive) option for an initial setup. However, its likely too big for the limited space in the Fifth Wheel and too heavy for a mobile cart setup.
Currently, we only have a Furman 7500 Tri Fuel that does a pretty good job of powering most of the house in the event of an outage provided we don't run both air conditioners, etc.
Thanks in advance...
Looking for a bit of advice on an initial setup to start establishing some infrastructure that can be built on down the road. Initially for emergency outages and/or boondocking and later to power most if not all of the house, property, etc. Would like to either turn the old 50 AMP Fifth Wheel into a Solar Generator Trailer that can back feed the house via generator inlet/transfer switch, interlock, etc. OR build out the hand truck mobile generator to do the same to provide power to either and/or truck around the property.
One of the challenges I keep getting wrapped around the axle on with the RV concept is the need for the RV to be both a consumer (when the grid is up) and a producer (when the grid is down). Obviously, this would require a second set of connections and/or transferring some wires around to switch from pulling power to pushing it back into the house (safely), but I was interested in seeing if anyone else has come up with a creative solution for this? Or is the best bet to pull the 50 amp cord off the 50 amp service/shore power inlet and flip it around to a 50 amp service on the RV side into a generator inlet on the house?
Initially thought an EG4 6500EX setup would provide a nice entry point but now that the EG4 18kpv + EG4 Powerpro are out, that looks like a more capable (though more expensive) option for an initial setup. However, its likely too big for the limited space in the Fifth Wheel and too heavy for a mobile cart setup.
Currently, we only have a Furman 7500 Tri Fuel that does a pretty good job of powering most of the house in the event of an outage provided we don't run both air conditioners, etc.
Thanks in advance...
