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


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