Exactly, I'm looking at them now. If I can buy one for not a lot more money than the existing hood I'll go that way. Otherwise it may just stay 110v, it only gets run for minutes a day so I'm not terribly worried about the inverter cost. -Curt
On Thursday, February 20, 2020, 1:31:04 PM EST, Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: On 20/02/2020 8:59 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > Hmm, I never thought of running the lights in series. It'd take some >thinking to figure out the runs though, you'd need to series and then parallel >to keep 12v. Rarely do we have just 2 lights on a run. > The bulk of the amps goes to the range hood which, for now, is 110v. There > are 12v options which I'm investigating. The one we have now is dying anyway. > The bulk of power use over time, especially during deer camp in November, is > charging phones and tablets. 6 guys each with a phone and a tablet requires a > lot of USB ports if not a ton of power... > We probably use 30ah @12v a day. Best charging I've ever see is 4.5a but > thats at the peak around noon. I'm thinking one other thing we should do is > split the two banks of panels onto 2 charge controllers, that way if one pair > of panels is shaded they won't negatively effect the other. > > -Curt > How about a range hood from a travel trailer? Do they run on 12V? RB _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com