CJGing
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Good day I am in planning stages of "The off grid king power system" (https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/the-off-grid-king-power-anything.html) and I have a few questions. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
1. The system will be installed in to a travel trailer (30amp w HVAC) and I'd like to keep the ability to keep my existing shore power hook-up. BTW, I don't plan on running the HVAC unit on Solar.
1a. The 120v AC to DC converter that comes with most travel trailers, to my understanding, is very cheap and basically is on or off when charging the batteries. My question here is does this need to be upgraded or no?
1b. Is it best practice to install a "auto switch" in such that when I plugin to shore power or a generator it switches off the inverter feed to the shore power feed?
2. I don't plan on buying everything and installing at once, instead I'd like to do this over time, starting with the battery bank conversion (Lithium) and building the system up from there. What do you guys recommend I do as far as the "order of conversion"? My reasoning for starting with the battery bank is this would give the the ability to run off grid with little to no generator time (only run generator as needed). Since this build isn't quit big enough to run a 13,500 BTU unit for any extended amount of time the generator will still be needed.
Also, sorry for the non-technical terminology here, I hope this makes sense..
Again thanks in advance for the advice.
1. The system will be installed in to a travel trailer (30amp w HVAC) and I'd like to keep the ability to keep my existing shore power hook-up. BTW, I don't plan on running the HVAC unit on Solar.
1a. The 120v AC to DC converter that comes with most travel trailers, to my understanding, is very cheap and basically is on or off when charging the batteries. My question here is does this need to be upgraded or no?
1b. Is it best practice to install a "auto switch" in such that when I plugin to shore power or a generator it switches off the inverter feed to the shore power feed?
2. I don't plan on buying everything and installing at once, instead I'd like to do this over time, starting with the battery bank conversion (Lithium) and building the system up from there. What do you guys recommend I do as far as the "order of conversion"? My reasoning for starting with the battery bank is this would give the the ability to run off grid with little to no generator time (only run generator as needed). Since this build isn't quit big enough to run a 13,500 BTU unit for any extended amount of time the generator will still be needed.
Also, sorry for the non-technical terminology here, I hope this makes sense..
Again thanks in advance for the advice.