house battery

[loboone]

need help, will a Lifeline GPL27T 100AH battery be enough for?
Maxxfan 5100K, running 24/7 through summer months,
Arb 50Qt fridge
Laptop 3hrs use per day
Reading light
Cell ph
this will be in a E250 2009. Starter battery plus solenoid wired to house battery, addl for charging will have a magnum 1000watt inverter charger with 2000watt gen. have not looked at solar options yet.

 

[TucsonAZ]

need help, will a Lifeline GPL27T 100AH battery be enough for?
Maxxfan 5100K, running 24/7 through summer months,
Arb 50Qt fridge
Laptop 3hrs use per day
Reading light
Cell ph
this will be in a E250 2009. Starter battery plus solenoid wired to house battery, addl for charging will have a magnum 1000watt inverter charger with 2000watt gen. have not looked at solar options yet.

With that battery you will have 1,200 watts of which you can use 600 watts without causing damage to your battery. You would have to figure out the power consumption of your items and see if they're over or under 600 watts to determine that.

I don't know that battery but the website gives the specs in CCA as well which is not typically how a battery that's desirable for that type of use would be rated. Do you already own the battery? If not there may be better options, even better if it can be stored outside of the coach.

 

[akrvbob]

You aren't giving us anywhere near enough information to give you an informed opinion. Answer these questions:


You don't have any solar?
Your only charging will be the alternator and the generator?
How much do you drive?
Are you going to be boondocking so you can run the generator as much as you want?
How much do you want to run the generator?

The simple answer is that you can run a generator 24 hours a day so yes, it is plenty of battery. Just charge it off the gen if it gets low. If you drive quite a bit and are willing to run the generator to make up for what it lacks, then again, yes it is enough.

Ideally you will get a 200 watt solar panel and a second battery and never have to run the generator at all except during long storms.
Bob

The more complicated answer is

 

[highdesertranger]

yes more info needed. highdesertranger

 

[loboone]

sorry I havent gotten back, alot of running around and installed the maxxfan 5100k, not hooked up yet to electric, but the hard part is done. Nixed the 12v battery and went w/2 6v trojan 105's 225AH's, have to do a dual box and will vent out roof. I need to do pics and figure out how to upload them. Will be working on wiring from start battery to house batteries this week. The magnum MMS1012-G should arrive this week.
should be in van by Friday traveling up west coast the plan is at least 1 month up and back probably closer to three months, than back into the work mode?
ok to the ??? dont know how much i will drive just going to go with the flow and a lot of napping.
planning on parks, beachs, campgrounds, so generator can run day light hrs. or use electric at campgrounds.
I figure solar added by next summer.

 

[akrvbob]

You'll be fine as long as you don't have too high an expectation of charging from the alternator. Monitor the batteries voltage closely and run the generator whenever you need to.

From the specs it looks like the no-load draw of that inverter is 1.5 amps per hour. Leave it on for 24 hours and that's 36 amps all by itself even if nothing is plugged in. I'd just use it when you have to and then get it turned off.

That's the main disadvantage of PSW, it works hard so it uses quite a bit of power.
Bob