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[100Acre]

On my camper I have a 100watt solar panel to feed the two Group 31 AGM batteries when they’re not being charged by the alternator while driving. It powers my forced air furnace, two fantastic fans, led lights and a Danfloss compressor in my 12 volt Engel 45 marine refrigerator/freezer. If I throw the AC in the emergency escape window, I must use the little Honda companion which powers my 5,000 BTU window unit just fine. I just can’t drive down the highway with the AC in the window or the genny running. Unless.....

 

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[ohanacreek]

Ok that was fun...

 

[Adam490]

Ok that was fun...

I kept trying to reply as you bastards were in the process of deleting them lol!

 

[CumminsPusher]

I kept trying to reply as you bastards were in the process of deleting them lol!

s***! What’d I miss

 

[JTW]

Do you have an inverter for the fridge? If you do why dont you install a duplex plug for the fridge. Isolate top and bottom plug, hook the top plug to the generator and the other to the the inverter. Plug in in the top while running the gen and move to lower plug when using the inverter.

I do not... the outlets and ac, only run on shore power. The converter is for the ac power to dc to charge the trailer battery. Everything is finished and nice inside which makes it a real b**** to do any after the fact rigging. That’s my one complaint about these finished aluminum trailers. They’re build for the guy that wants to just order what he wants and lacks the time or skills to do it himself. While the fit and finish and quality is outstanding, it’s not ideal for folks like many of us who like to do s*** themselves or rig the way we want it or add along the way.

 

[JTW]

s***! What’d I miss

No kidding... I need moderator powers just so I can see all the bulls*** I start!

 

[VaHillbilly]

No kidding... I need moderator powers just so I can see all the bulls*** I start!

That would be the beginning of the end!

 

[CumminsPusher]

That would be the beginning of the end!

Or the end of the beginning.

 

[JTW]

Or the end of the beginning.

Someone who actually gets it!

 

[VaHillbilly]

Or the end of the beginning.

True... depending on what view you had

 

[Tramguage1]

Unplug the charger or put a switch on the 110vac supply to the charger when you want to run gen when you plugged into the truck.
If you do this the batteries can charge off the truck and only the ac and fridge will run on gen.

 

[Vikes79]

I do not... the outlets and ac, only run on shore power. The converter is for the ac power to dc to charge the trailer battery. Everything is finished and nice inside which makes it a real b**** to do any after the fact rigging. That’s my one complaint about these finished aluminum trailers. They’re build for the guy that wants to just order what he wants and lacks the time or skills to do it himself. While the fit and finish and quality is outstanding, it’s not ideal for folks like many of us who like to do s*** themselves or rig the way we want it or add along the way.

Run the generator. It’s very common to do so in the RV world even with a stand alone generator.

if your worried about back charging the truck, put a isolator on the charging wire from your 7-way round.

Your truck already has one. You can verify this by taking a voltmeter to the charging pin on your truck 7-way. I bet it’s dead when the key is off on the truck.

 

[Tramguage1]

I wouldn't take a chance on damaging the trucks electronic! With the high tech stuff they have now things could get ugly fast! Also not all generator ac outputs are equal.

 

[Cyberjunk]

If you rig up a wheel that you can put down on the road as your rolling that could turn a generator your movement would create power and you wouldn’t be creating green house gasses .


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[CumminsPusher]

If you rig up a wheel that you can put down on the road as your rolling that could turn a generator your movement would create power and you wouldn’t be creating green house gasses .


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The EB doesn’t need any more resistance

 

[ohanacreek]

s***! What’d I miss

Not much it was fun to let y’all derail @JTW thread like he does everyone else’s.

 

[CumminsPusher]

Not much it was fun to let y’all derail @JTW thread like he does everyone else’s.

Damn I hate missing that stuff

 

[ohanacreek]

If you rig up a wheel that you can put down on the road as your rolling that could turn a generator your movement would create power and you wouldn’t be creating green house gasses .


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You would be adding resistance to the truck there fire greenhouse gasses(unless you use the liberal math they use to justify polluting the planet with heavy metals making stupid electric cars vs carbon which trees process and store) and that just seems like methed up Rube Goldberg contraption waiting to be memed on social media.

 

[Firemedic530]

Pull the fuse on the truck that feeds trailer hot in your plug. Now you'll be safe and then just reinstall fuse when you are using trailer without generator. That will keep your 12 volt systems separate.

 

[Montecresto]

Can I run a generator while driving down the road to power my enclosed?

I’ve done so without any tribulation.