Tuesday - Another travel day to a county park in Warrens, WI. The site is on a hill and the water spigot and power pedestal are nowhere near the level parking location. I needed to use all three of my 25’ water hoses and the 25’ extension cord to get power. Fortunately, I got the power assist feature working on the Victron. It’s a 20amp breaker on the pedestal, so I have the current limited to 18amps.
We did have the refrigerator running on battery power while driving today. This allowed us to have the propane turned off which is much safer. We arrived with the batteries at 100% SoC between the solar and the DC-DC engine charging.
We are only here for one night with a 250 mile travel day tomorrow to a HH southwest of Chicago.
I tend to drive with the propane on for the fridge, and I debate back and forth about the safety of it. Need to think order on that, it's another factor to convince me not to drive more than 3 to 4 hours a day on driving days.
ReplyDeleteThe DC-DC charger puts out 30amps which is more than enough to run the refrigerator but this is the first time we actually turned off the propane. I think it’s probably a good idea to not run propane. And I don’t need to remember to turn off the refrigerator before pulling into a gas station.
DeleteThis post has awoken that debate again about propane being in use while driving. I'm going to run some tests over the next few trips to see if the fridge holds temperature for a sufficient amount of time when propane is off. I'm also thinking, I could plug the fridge into the inverter directly and have the fridge running via 110 as the chassis engine recharges the battery, we'll see. Need to figure out if it can hold the cold low enough without it being on at all.
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