HOW LONG CAN A CARAVAN AIR CONDITIONER SURVIVE OFF GRID? THE ULTIMATE BATTERY TEST!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มี.ค. 2024
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Join us as we run a real time battery test to see how long we can last off grid with the Air conditioner running full time and living just like we are plugged into 240 power. We were thrown a very big curve ball at the end which made us have to stop the test a little early! Make sure to watch to the end to find out why!
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I’m building an Isuzu NPS. I’ve 1100watts of Solar, 2xDC/DC chargers, 400Ah of Lithium Batteries and a 3000W invertor, all Victron.
Thing I love most? The Victron Cerbo GX will run a Node Red Server. I can use Siri to turn things on and off such as lights, the invertor, water pump and air compressor.
I also can top up the batteries in the caravan.
Great info on the aircon, thanks!
That’s a solid set up 😎
@@Travellingcampers it’s not 900Ah 😀. I’ve another 1000W of solar on the van with 400Ah Enerdrive batteries though.
I have just removed all the Jayco gear and installed 800 watts of solar, 400amps of lithium and a 3000 watt inverter, 100/ 60 solar controller and a 12/ 60 DC-DC charger, all Renogy gear run through a Renogy fused combiner box. Good system, but I am under no illusion that it will run the aircon, but it is not intended to. Maybe one day, bigger van, bigger system, but that is for another day. Great episode Josh, one of your better ones.
Awesome system! You should definitely get a few hours with the air con on! Thanks mate, hope you got plenty from it!
Hi mate, I am a sparky and agree. We have 620Ah in the Van (with 980w of solar) and 360Ah in the car. We have setup the van DC-DC so car decants power into van and uses car power first. This allows us to charge while we drive when un-hooked and bring power back to van at night. Great vid 👍
In our 2003 winnebago ultimate freedom we swapped the 4 6v golf cart batteries for two 460 AH temgot lithium batteries. Working to improve the system as we boondock full time. We are hoping to upgrade to a victron inverter soon for the efficiency and the xantrax inverter is on its last leg making all kinds of noises. We love the bluetooth capabilities of the temgot batteries. They are just so well built with the steal boxes and cool color scheme. And we all know if your gonna do something, you better look cool doing it. 😎 cheers y'all
22 ft Lotus Freelander , thanks to you Guys we went the 900 ah monster pack with the 5 x 200 w panels on the roof as well as 2 x solar blankets plug in ports .Also Czone Switching setup . Love the endless power when off grid 👌
EPIC set up guys!
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@@TravellingcampersThat’s Awesome Guys , We are Currently sitting on the banks of the Murray River at Torrumbarry on our way home from Central OZ . Been a great 6 weeks checking out what this great country has to offer . The Lotus Freelander and the awesome monster battery pack performed fantastic . Hope to see you guys on the road soon . Thanks again , perfect end to our holiday 👍 Anthony & Tracey Lister
Our 2016 Holden Colorado has a 180W panel, Redarc solar controller, Redarc DcDc charger, and a 140amp hour AGM battery…. Just enough for us to run our Engel fridge/freezer on our weekend trips away.
Great channel, keep up the fantastic videos 💯🇦🇺
Yeah the Colorado! Perfect little set up!
Great test cheers 👍just what we like to see real time testing
Thanks for watching!
Hey guys awesome to see some informative articles being covered we have been very much looking into this exact subject. We are running 400ah lithium with 660watts solar on the roof of the van we want to install a inverter as we want to run our aircon off grid with the young family instead of having to book powered sites just to keep the kids comfy but as you said in the video this is not a cheap addition to get installed. We love the power usage and run time we get currently but would love to expand this system to be more open to off grid traveling.
Glad to hear you guys got plenty of value! Inverter, another battery and more solar and you will be laughing!
Isuzu Dmax with a DC to DC charger hooked up to 120 amp hour battery. Running a fridge at the moment 24/7! Nothing flash but does the job, love the relatively basic, convenient setup✅
Cheers guys, Happy Easter👌👍
Yeah the dmax!
Hey Legend... We have 800watts on our roof plus a 200watt portable panel which we are changing now over to a kickass 300w portable, We hsve 600ah in total and a 3000w inverter & a Redarc battery management system.
Its enough to run all we need especially the air con as you mentioned use it to cool down and then just relax it. Mad episode once again Josh thanks and hopefully will see you out there soon 🤙🏻
Yeahhhhhh Phil more then enough to be running bags Aus wide 💦
Hi Travelling Campers. Very informative and love watching you guys. We have in our new Van 400 Amps of Lithium and 800 watts of Solar with 300 watt Inverter. This was as much as we could afford as we also went the airbag suspension. Would have loved an extra Battery. Maybe next time. Great to see how long it will last as I have tried it for a couple of hours and went down to 80%. Great tips thanks very much.
Perfect set up guys thanks for sharing!
Happy Easter guys, we have a new van lined up for December! Can’t wait. 800w of solar, 3000w inverter, 400Ah lithium battery. Hoping it’s enough to go out in the bush. Enjoy your new van guys
Perfect set up guys! Enjoy!
3 solar panels, 2 GCM batteries, and a 2000W inverter.
I've never run out of power.
I run a Kings fridge/freezer, fan, phone and laptop. Plus a 1 litre 12 volt kettle.
I'm looking at getting a 12 volt air-conditioner.
I'm totally off grid and have a potential for 240 volt (but I've never used it). Everything I have is 12 volt.
Epic set up! Thanks for sharing mate!
We add a cheap Kmart fan on the floor to help push the aircon air around the van. Makes a huge difference on battery load.
Very Smart!
I have a 300amp lithium battery in my hybrid, love it ,
Hi Travelling campers I currently have a 200a/h enerdrive battery and enerdrive chargers. heaps better than the 2 agm's it had but wish i could run things like you can! would make campingbetter all round. Thanks for video learnt heaps. Cheers Darryl
Huge upgrade from the agm, thanks for sharing mate and glad you got a lot from the episode!
I am currerly running a 300amp lithuim (2nd battery will be added. I have a 2000 watt invertor running everything and i am in the process of installing 1020 watts of solar and use a 200 watt blanket.
I'm running a 6 year old king's 160w folding panel and on weekend just gone was getting 8.5 amp's. Would love to support more Aussie companies but I'm priced out.
Just a simple 100ah deep cycle and redarc isolater in the 4wd. Not great for the battery, but simplicity is nice. Also have a set of kings foldable panels, to tickle it up when its a bit low.
Would want to move to a lithium and bcdc for a bit more efficiency and longevity for when not moving around as much.
Thanks for sharing! Definately be a game changer with a couple of upgrades to lithium!
300ah lithium, 3000w inverter, and 630w solar (not enough solar) in the caravan and 250ah lithium, 3000 w inverter a 390w on the ute. Also, have a 250w blanket to share between the 2. I need an mppt charger for the van to make it more efficient. Keep up the good work, guys.
Great set up mate!
Hi there, our little van has 200a/h of Renogy lithium, Renogy 50Amp dc/dc, Victron 30Amp mains charger and 300watts roof mounted solar. An Anderson plug on the side for an extra 360w solar. Working on a 100a/h lithium battery box for the car atm.
Cheers guys!
Nice little set up!
Mr Murdoch we have a fully offgrid system in our gic black series patron forward fold wired the whole system myself with only the best (enerdrive) yeah that's right 200ah of lithium dc2dc charger and sitting on the boat rack is a 320watt solar panel . The way we camp we never need to plug in and when we are home just park it out in the backyard and it looks after itself 😅🎉 thanks for sharing your van power mate
Perfect set up crew thanks for sharing!
I run a 400ah lithium setup with a Projecta INVCHR2 inverter/charger combo with auto changeover, it's awesome being able to run everything without being plugged in.
Epic set up mate!
HI Guys, we have an Enerdrive system in both our van and car canopy. Van has 2 x 300w BTEC batteries, dual 40Amp solar controllers, 60Amp AC charger, 40Amp DCDC, 2600W Inverter and 1400W solar. Car canopy has 1 x 200w BTEC battery, 60Amp AC charger, 40Amp DCDC charger and 2000w Inverter plus a 240volt inlet. We also have a Redarc 300W solar blanket. Best thing is we can plug the car into the van via the AC charger, turn the Inverter on in the van to top up the car or vice versa.
Now that’s an epic set up!
Great video and good win for tomac. Jett must be super pissed off.
Go Jett 💃🏼
I’m running Safiery, 48v, 6000w digital inverter, produces no heat, weighs 12kg, 1300 watts of solar with maxing charge capacity from same inverter, can also at idle charge at 100 amps.
Ultimate power set up with these wizards
Wow epic set up!
Yo, Y62, 110amp slimline lithium, 1800w inverter with a 160 watt panel on the roof. Very good but can always do with more haha.
Caravan, 600 amps of lithium, 3000w inverter and 2x 170 watt panels on the roof. Runs A/con in the van all night but limiting factor getting charge back into the batterys so next is more solar.
Love having Acon in the van at night and love being able to boil water at the beach in the car with 0 issues.
Cheers legends. 👍🏿
Epic set up in the 62!
900amps would be amazing!! We put 400Amps in ours with victron system. We manage coffee and AC but only 2-3 hours max, I find after that the worst of the heat sorted and then i get nervous. That said haven’t taken it up to NT, hopefully 2025 half lap and will find out. Mad truck and van. Very jealous 😊
We had a very similar system, it’s great but as you said 2-3 hours of heavy use you start getting very nervous into the afternoon and night haha. Love that you have the next trip planned!
I have just upgraded to 360amps of lithium with 3x90 watt enerdrive panels. Have a enerdrive DC2DC charger and 40amp charger. Would love to buy a solar blanket
Yeww perfect!
18.9 Urban X with 5kw Inverter , ozXcorp 14.3kwh 52volt Battery. 1320w solar on roof.
Hey guys. System just planned out in the new van. 1,000ah Redarc batteries. 1850w panels on the roof. Redarc bms 100 (maybe x2, waiting to hear back from Redarc) if that can’t happen, 2 x Redarc dcdc50 in conjunction with bms100. All shown through red vision.
So keen to see what this system can do, massive! Congrats again on the new van!
Thanks buddy. Sure is a huge system. When is your new van ready?
Just installing the Redarc RS3 3000Watt inverter and 600A/hrs of Lithium power (aiming to get a 3rd 300A/hr battery to get us up to 900A/hrs). That’s an upgrade from Redarc 2000Watt Inverter and 200A/hrs of lithium. Mid way through upgrading and swapping out inverter and batteries. $300 smackers might help me with some of my cable upgrades. We are aiming to be Off grid in our 2018 Lotus Trooper.
Amazing upgrades, going to be a crazy set up! Thanks for sharing!
We are just in the process of replacing our van.
Going full redarc Redvision system with the RS3 3000w inverter paired with 2x200Amp Btec batteries optioned for a 3rd battery to go in later and 800w solar in the roof.
Also so shopping for portable solar panels any recommendations?
P.s love your channel and your knowledge and experience.
Happy Easter
Perfect guys! The kickass 300w panels are good, get around 18.5 amps roughly, they are a touch big and heavy. We just purchased the Itech world 300w panels purely for room and weight, they are putting out around 16.5 amps.
We have a van getting built as we speak, 600ah lithium, 720 watts of solar on the roof, 500 watts of solar blankets, enerdrive I board and simarine monitoring.
Beautiful set up!
48V-14KW Battery Bank 5000va Inverter and 1.6kw Solar on roof - sweet
only a small set up 84 millard 200 ah litium 160w solar about to put 200w solar on roof setting up for road trip from corryong vic to perth in september use my setup 1 week every month to stay away for trade school {mature age apprentice plumber}
Perfect!
I have a camping trailer and I just upgraded from 2 Deep Cycle 85Ah lead acid batteries to two 100 Ah Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries.
Massive upgrade!
I have a 100ah AGM in a DIY portable battery box charging through a projecta dcdc, and from a solar blanket when at camp.
Could it be better, 100% it could. But for now with my occasional camping trips it does fine.
Perfect for the odd trip! Upgrade to a 1 or 200 lithium down the track will change the game for you!
Great to see you talking about the importance of solar for these systems. Having a massive battery is great but if you can’t recharge it, it’s pointless. 1400w roof mounted solar is not enough to recharge a system of that size so having a couple of portables is great.
What you said about the dcdc charger is not correct. Yes it taps out at 32a on the mppt input if your solar array is around the 20v which your portables are. However, it definitely should be pushing more that 40a from your vehicle. If it isn’t, then you have a wiring issue and usually undersized cable.
Suggest you also enquire about having a second dcdc fitted as your American truck has the capacity to run multiple dcdc chargers with the hnderbonnet alternator capacity you have.
Thanks for watching mate! New van will have the 100bms and got it set up with a 120 amp Anderson’s plug.
Happy Easter 🫱🏼🫲🏻
Plan on running 200ah battery a good dc/dc charger and solar panel to go with it all in the tube of the Ute
Perfect set up for a Ute!
Hey have you seen their is a solar Awning now available 700 - 1000w I believe
I have seen a bit about that, very interesting
400ah. Victron 3000 multi plus. 2 Victron solar controllers. New Victron 50amp dcdc. 💙
Perfect set up!
Paint the caravan white
Like it black 🫱🏼🫲🏻
Victron Multiplus ll baby!
⚡️
Victoria if you don’t like the weather wait five minutes
lol so true
gu patrol, ol girl is getting on, dream is to have 300ah lithium setup in it, to be able to base camp for longer, have induction would be sweet
Love it bro thanks for sharing!
300Ah of lithium and a 3000w invertor. New build due Dec. Not sure what to like or not yot.
Perfect set up!
HEY GUYS, 2x AGM 100AH.. sucks! catch 22... wont go off grid because i dont have the power, but wont buy the batteries cause we dont go offgrid. cheers
Lithium time 🫡
Why not install two panels on you car and run a cable to the van. That power would be a bigger push than a blanket.
Have no where to fit permanent panels on the TRX 🫱🏼🫲🏻
Could run me whole house off 900amps of lithium 😂
We literally do I guess 😅🤣🤣
Paint the caravan white.
Had a white caravan, still gets hot in the sun! Like it black 🫱🏼🫲🏻
I find it hard to understand why you keep getting new vans, doesn’t give me confidence in the brand for longevity.
We had a 2012 model Lotus parked in the shed until only a few months ago. It’s solely our choice, we like keeping it new and using the new updates that Lotus bring out each year. Not saying it’s what you need to do, just saying it’s what we do. Never had any major issues with any of our vans.
Happy Easter 🫱🏼🫲🏻
To much money
Or you don’t have enough money 🤔