I’m new and I hope you can help me since in this moment I’ll go to live in a old camper that I’m buying
It’s a Ford Transit of the 1984 and my needs are to recharge the whole time the mini frigo-freezer that is inside (1984 I guess) and my laptop, my smartphone and the lights inside during the afternoon/evening/night.
Can you share your experience and expertise please? Since I want also to put fixed the solar panels on the top of the Camper so when I’m travelling or I’m not there the solar panel will work well.
it really depends on many factors like the weather, the mounting of the panel and your actual consumption. Things like a smartphone or some LED lights arent a huge deal. A old fridge can be. Do you have any information about it what it draws?
Assuming it takes 60W - 80W for like 10 hours, only the fridge will take 600 - 800Wh from around 1000 avaivable Wh. Not calculated the actual self consumption of the unit and inverter itself.
Assuming the Panel produce 200W on a long summer day without clouds, you would produce double than you actual need (2 Kwh). For most cases, it will maybe cover the day, but not the night.
If you can go higher with Solar, i would adwise you to do.
Thanks a lot! The camper is 6 meters so I have space for the solar panels, do you know if I can install normal solar panels bought via amazon and after this use the Bluetti?
This morning I discovered that the mini frigo-freezeer probably consume 4-6amh
First Q; Is the Frigo fridge running on 12.8VDC or AC (Grid)? Q2, is everything you want to run using DC or is there a mix of DC & AC?
If it can pull up to 6A that’s around 75W. Then add other consumption items to that. Consider that the Bluetti AC180 has a 12V - 10A limit = 120W at any one time.
I don’t have this information and some of the abbreviations you used I have no way of understanding because I am new… Anyway I know that the fridge is trivalent so it can run on 12V, 220 and gas only it only runs on electricity so with the energy generated by the solar panels.
