What did you do to your rig today?

[T1 Terry]

Finally refitted the small inverter to power the bed side light and electric blanket so the big inverter wasn't needed over night. Used 50Ah less last night, now the battery will be full by mid afternoon and I won't need to hang the portables over the fence to catch the afternoon sun.... not sure which part of lazy finally pushed the issue, but maybe the Taggerty trip coming up tipped the scales toward solving the problem

[PeterM]

I like the cooler Peter.

On cooling would it EVER freeze? Once insulin freezes it's useless.

Dunno yet. But I do have à cheap digital thermometer in the cooler. I will know soon enough.

[bagmaker]

Finally refitted the small inverter to power the bed side light and electric blanket so the big inverter wasn't needed over night. Used 50Ah less last night, now the battery will be full by mid afternoon and I won't need to hang the portables over the fence to catch the afternoon sun.... not sure which part of lazy finally pushed the issue, but maybe the Taggerty trip coming up tipped the scales toward solving the problem

Does that mean the big inverter uses 50Ah by itself T1??
Or was that just a blip? What inverters do you run?

[pet-els]

BCF Bathurst Gas $25.

PeterH

[Mrcoolabah1au]

Yer mite need that blanket a Taggerty this year if it get down to 1 or 2

[T1 Terry]

Finally refitted the small inverter to power the bed side light and electric blanket so the big inverter wasn't needed over night. Used 50Ah less last night, now the battery will be full by mid afternoon and I won't need to hang the portables over the fence to catch the afternoon sun.... not sure which part of lazy finally pushed the issue, but maybe the Taggerty trip coming up tipped the scales toward solving the problem

Does that mean the big inverter uses 50Ah by itself T1??
Or was that just a blip? What inverters do you run?

The 3000w/9000w inverters are extremely inefficient at low power loads, the electric blanket is not enough to pull the inverter on in power saver mode so it wastes around 5 amps running at 2.5% capacity. The little 150w modified sine wave inverter is running at around 50% load, still not at it's peak efficiency but wastes around 0.5 amps, all night for the amount the big one wastes in an hr. Plenty of battery and solar so it was never a problem, even with 3 days overcast conditions.... rain is not a word used very often in Mannum water may fall from the sky but it never seems to wet the path or the road and doesn't make a reading in a rain gauge, if it wasn't for the tin roof you wouldn't know it was even happening

[Dot]

G has the air con all ready to go up on the bus roof, trouble was I am not able to assist even though he built some very stable scaffolding in layers but he decided NO so we shall wait till a strong male appears, so he made a fly screen for one of the bus windows, now just 4 to go.

[shonky]

Hi, all.

Dot - suggest to your other half that he flicks a rope around anything solid on the roof so both rope ends are hanging over the side of the bus. Run your ladder up fairly close to the side of the bus then tie the ropes to the sides of the ladder - somewhere they won't slide. Then go back down and pull out the base of the ladder until it won't move. It then becomes a solid fixture.
If that doesn't make it easy for you you're just a scaredycat.

[bagmaker]

Finally refitted the small inverter to power the bed side light and electric blanket so the big inverter wasn't needed over night. Used 50Ah less last night, now the battery will be full by mid afternoon and I won't need to hang the portables over the fence to catch the afternoon sun.... not sure which part of lazy finally pushed the issue, but maybe the Taggerty trip coming up tipped the scales toward solving the problem

Does that mean the big inverter uses 50Ah by itself T1??
Or was that just a blip? What inverters do you run?

The 3000w/9000w inverters are extremely inefficient at low power loads, the electric blanket is not enough to pull the inverter on in power saver mode so it wastes around 5 amps running at 2.5% capacity. The little 150w modified sine wave inverter is running at around 50% load, still not at it's peak efficiency but wastes around 0.5 amps, all night for the amount the big one wastes in an hr. Plenty of battery and solar so it was never a problem, even with 3 days overcast conditions.... rain is not a word used very often in Mannum water may fall from the sky but it never seems to wet the path or the road and doesn't make a reading in a rain gauge, if it wasn't for the tin roof you wouldn't know it was even happening

I guess 9kw is going to have a downside!!

[Dot]

Hi, all.

Dot - suggest to your other half that he flicks a rope around anything solid on the roof so both rope ends are hanging over the side of the bus. Run your ladder up fairly close to the side of the bus then tie the ropes to the sides of the ladder - somewhere they won't slide. Then go back down and pull out the base of the ladder until it won't move. It then becomes a solid fixture.
If that doesn't make it easy for you you're just a scaredycat.

Hi Shonky,
Problem solved, the nice man from the local hardware place is coming in the morning with his big forklift to help with the job.