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Originally Posted by julianactive
Don Juan,
Last summer I car camped for 15 nights and bicycled every day without an AC!
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I camped 3 weeks in Alaska in 1995 in a tent and without a bicycle. And my dog is cuter than yours is :-). This sounds like the theme of all whose whatchmaallet is larger, longer, better, etc LOL.
Otherwise, my A/C is available for emergency and I try to control my journeys with altitude adjustments but there are always surprise valleys and mountains we don't expect, there are opportunities we don't account for with dreams found under the canopy or a week under total solar power outage instigated while stuck under total cloud-cover. And if you are consuming near what I do which is around 80-100A per day without running the battery-powered A/C unit, even then you can't depend on solar every day unless you live in the desert. Therefore and generally, some type of petroleum energy to electric conversion is required and that is either the engine having a replacement cost of around $15,000 when it wears down compared to perhaps a $1500 Honda generator.
Also something very "fishy" when someone can shut down every window, set the A/C running off batteries on a 2 hour timer and they not realize that they will (hopefully) wake up after about 2.3 hours and have to open every window and get all the fans setup, how is that of any benefit. Of all the tales told, the concept of just cooling down the coach to where I can fall asleep seems the most far fetched, as it is counter to everything I have learned about RVing and how people sleep and that is, you set your environment before sleeping because you may not wake up to make a major panic adjustment like will be needed for resting an entire night. This concept spoken reminds me of my drunken old friend who add red meat at every sitting (formerly from Argentina). His doctor said "you can no have only 6 oz of red meat per week". He replied "why don't you just keep it then".
Also Youtube is great for pipe dreams, like I have found perpetual motion machines (tie a generator to a motor together with a belt drive and give it a spin plus tap off for free energy, or how about a free uphill water pump, a ram pump that drains your water reserve to get get a tiny trickle up the hill).
Just for thought, on the Youtube "I'm really happy with this setup", in my case I have a split window unit, very modern inverter unit with varri-speed compressor and evap/cond motors variable as well and in 90-100F weather averages pulling about 60A @ 12VDC constantly. After 24 hours of operation that's 60A x 24hr = 1440aH battery minimal and thus if we look at A&M Solar's estimate of 30A delivered per 100W panel daily that's 1440 / 30 = 48 (100w panels required) Thus we have 4800W solar required to provide a standard class C motor-home with 24x7 A/C and that does not even take into account the 100A daily consumption of lamps, laptops, tablets, phones, water pump etc.
Thus with the average class C having 400W of solar, they are 10x under powered and that's even with us back to the debate of how often we can depend on solar always being available while ignoring that clouds get in the way. But I've looked at clouds from both sides now, from solar power and none somehow, and it's clouds illusions I recall - I really don't know clouds, at all.
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