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Originally Posted by kursk42
I plan on putting 600 watt solar panel on the roof of a small camper. The Panels will be able to tilt so I can get as much power as I can. My main use is to run a 5000 BTU AC tha draws 450w in the summer and a 500w space heater in the winter & a few little items like phones, tablets and led lights. I plane on buying one or two Battle Born Batteries.
Heres my question, If I run the AC during the heat of day will the 600w keep the battery(s) charged up for the evening to charge the little stuff.
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We've built many systems for trailers. I've never found a 5000 BTU AC that only uses 450 Watts. They do cycle and typically run 30% of the time, depending on the temperature outside vs. inside.
Battleborn are very good batteries. But each 100AH battery holds 1200 Watt-Hours of energy.
600 Watts in the most ideal conditions in Souther California will produce about 3,600-4,000 Watt-Hours. While this is enough to recharge that two batteries, it isn't much.
A Typical layout for one of our Mi-Grid 500 systems was 2000 Watts of Solar with 6 x 1200 Watt LifePo4 batteries. We also included a 4000 Watt auto start generator which can recharge the batteries when they get low. This was connected to a 120VAC inverter system with 4000 Watt output.
The lowest power consumption AC units are inverter (variable speed)