Hi Johnny!! Thank you for this great overview of your rig! It looks like a fun rig. I also really liked seeing your Maxpeedingrods generator!! I just got back from TX doing our solar install. So, I'll get my generator up and going for our next trip! I actually need to get on that so I can do a couple of break in runs of it and changing of the oil each time prior to it pulling a load from the trailer. The thing I Iearned the most since driving back from TX to CO with our new solar-- the norcold fridge is a power pig when running it on 120v on my inverter connected to the lithium batteries. We have 500 amp hours of batteries. We left South Padre Island at 9:30pm and drove through the night. At approx 9am the next morning, we had used 220amp hrs to power that fridge :-( I will be running that on propane while we drive from this point on! The tip I have seen on the youtube full timers that use solar is they run their fridge on propane and maybe for 4 hours during the day, they switch it over to electric (off of the inverter on the batteries) since they are producing so many amps during the day with the panels on the room. Safe travels!
@@johnnysweekends Hi Johnny! Yes...a real sucker, for sure. I have the 3k Victron. And yes, 5 100ah battle borns. Over the Pre Black Friday sale at BattleBorn, I basically was able to get 5 for the price of 4 batteries. Truth in lending, they were blemished batteries. But, I certainly can't tell! I will look back for your email and send a few pics
I would buy blemishes as well lol. As long as they are safe and functional I’m all about scratch and dent..😂👍🏼 Surprised the fridge used that much. I know some will move ice blocks or packs around as they travel depending on our side temps. So frozen ice bags or ice packs will move to the fridge and then back when done traveling. And they will turn the units off. But depends on weather and how long. Plus propane is a lot more efficient then electrical on those fridges. But with the ice packs thing and propane on and off you’ll hardly burn anything.
@@johnnysweekends Hi there. Oh yes...I basically couldn't tell why the "blemmished" were "blemmished". They also come with the 10yr battleborn warranty! Yes...I was shocked at that fridge power usage, via the inverter powered by the lithiums. It didn't help our case that the install was finished at 8:30pm and we decided to hit the road by 9:30pm so as to get some miles knocked out vice staying for the night and leaving in the morning. Aside from all of the comments I've received about never drive at night and don't go farther than 300, or maybe 500 miles in that rare drive, I had to head out on a work trip, so figured it was best to knock out some miles so that it wasn't a 1300 mile, 2 day drive. Ha...we ended up driving mostly straight through from 24 hours and then stopped for the night with about 100 miles to go to our home in CO (the million dollar highway is 3 mountain passes and it had been snowing that day; so didn't want to tackle that at night). So, the smart folks say "run the fridge on propane except during the day for maybe 4 hours on those high sun output days; then put it on 120v through the inverter for that short period". That makes sense considering how much wattage I have on the roof. Theoretically, on a normal, western US sunny day, especially in the summer, the panels will produce more power than needed to completely recharge the batteries, daily. Or....if it were cloudy or we were in the forest, break out the Maxpeedingsrod generator!!
Yea you have a decent amount of solar on that little unit so you could recharge at a decent rate for sure. I wonder how much power is lost through the inverter? Do they give a break down on that model?
Hi Johnny!! Thank you for this great overview of your rig! It looks like a fun rig. I also really liked seeing your Maxpeedingrods generator!! I just got back from TX doing our solar install. So, I'll get my generator up and going for our next trip! I actually need to get on that so I can do a couple of break in runs of it and changing of the oil each time prior to it pulling a load from the trailer.
The thing I Iearned the most since driving back from TX to CO with our new solar-- the norcold fridge is a power pig when running it on 120v on my inverter connected to the lithium batteries. We have 500 amp hours of batteries. We left South Padre Island at 9:30pm and drove through the night. At approx 9am the next morning, we had used 220amp hrs to power that fridge :-( I will be running that on propane while we drive from this point on!
The tip I have seen on the youtube full timers that use solar is they run their fridge on propane and maybe for 4 hours during the day, they switch it over to electric (off of the inverter on the batteries) since they are producing so many amps during the day with the panels on the room.
Safe travels!
Thanks Alan.
Wow that does suck some power. What type of inverter are you running again. And are you running 5 battle borns again?
@@johnnysweekends Hi Johnny! Yes...a real sucker, for sure.
I have the 3k Victron. And yes, 5 100ah battle borns. Over the Pre Black Friday sale at BattleBorn, I basically was able to get 5 for the price of 4 batteries. Truth in lending, they were blemished batteries. But, I certainly can't tell!
I will look back for your email and send a few pics
I would buy blemishes as well lol. As long as they are safe and functional I’m all about scratch and dent..😂👍🏼
Surprised the fridge used that much. I know some will move ice blocks or packs around as they travel depending on our side temps. So frozen ice bags or ice packs will move to the fridge and then back when done traveling. And they will turn the units off. But depends on weather and how long. Plus propane is a lot more efficient then electrical on those fridges. But with the ice packs thing and propane on and off you’ll hardly burn anything.
@@johnnysweekends Hi there. Oh yes...I basically couldn't tell why the "blemmished" were "blemmished". They also come with the 10yr battleborn warranty!
Yes...I was shocked at that fridge power usage, via the inverter powered by the lithiums. It didn't help our case that the install was finished at 8:30pm and we decided to hit the road by 9:30pm so as to get some miles knocked out vice staying for the night and leaving in the morning. Aside from all of the comments I've received about never drive at night and don't go farther than 300, or maybe 500 miles in that rare drive, I had to head out on a work trip, so figured it was best to knock out some miles so that it wasn't a 1300 mile, 2 day drive. Ha...we ended up driving mostly straight through from 24 hours and then stopped for the night with about 100 miles to go to our home in CO (the million dollar highway is 3 mountain passes and it had been snowing that day; so didn't want to tackle that at night).
So, the smart folks say "run the fridge on propane except during the day for maybe 4 hours on those high sun output days; then put it on 120v through the inverter for that short period". That makes sense considering how much wattage I have on the roof. Theoretically, on a normal, western US sunny day, especially in the summer, the panels will produce more power than needed to completely recharge the batteries, daily. Or....if it were cloudy or we were in the forest, break out the Maxpeedingsrod generator!!
Yea you have a decent amount of solar on that little unit so you could recharge at a decent rate for sure. I wonder how much power is lost through the inverter? Do they give a break down on that model?
If you hold down your power button on the radio, does it go completely off? Without the switch you installed?
No just that stand by position. Maybe on the latest models they do, but not mine which is what annoyed me. Plus it was bright at night.