Connect van batteries to house

[Riverlander]

Just sort of thinking out loud. If I put a good battery set up in the van, could that be connected to supplement a home battery/solar set up when not traveling. Cheers John

[BruceS]

Easiest way is to just run a few dedicated items from it like a fridge, freezer & TV. Watch it for a while & if still more to spare on sunny days, do the vacuuming or washing in the middle of those days.
A little bit of testing and analysing as you go.
Today in Mannum it was hot till around lunch time. I ran the air conditioner till 1pm and still had the batteries up to 100% by 6PM.
Used no shore power at all.

[T1 Terry]

Hi John, Quite a few people have set up their systems so the RV outside power socket can supply power to appliances inside the house. The fridge is a power eater that can be run by the RV solar/batteries and with a good system the washing machine as well. We did have one that decided to throw in the clothes dryer as well, this system actually had 2 inverters and it was a case of the smaller inverter trying to run a load that was all too much for it. To the Projecta IP2000's credit, it was the fuse that melted and not the inverter, a new fuse and away it went again. So really the limit is the battery capability, the inverter capability and the solar capacity to replace the energy used. I wouldn't suggest too many high draw appliances off the one extension lead, don't want Peter on here waving the "shall" book about eh

Just to make sure those reading this understand, the RV can not be plugged into the normal house circuit along with the mains still connected, RV type inverters are not designed for this purpose. What is being suggested here is running a separate extension cable and plugging the appliance into this cable so only that appliance is being powered by the RV inverter, not the whole house......

T1 Terry