It is time to inform the truth about RV photo voltaic and lithium batteries. Not that they aren’t excellent to have. It’s just that too a lot of RVers have been talked into receiving photo voltaic/lithium packages by unreasonable claims by RV salespeople who just really don’t comprehend the limits of the technological know-how.

Let me be pretty obvious: We have been making use of RV photo voltaic and lithium batteries given that 2015. Jen and I love RV photo voltaic and lithium batteries. We would not have an RV without a strong technique and, in fact, we just did a key update of the RV photo voltaic package and lithium battery bank on our Keystone Arcadie fifth wheel.

But the key is possessing sufficient RV photo voltaic and lithium to do what the salespeople assure.

This week, we communicate to two professionals as we examine the abilities of our new procedure and understand about battery draw and what is reasonable and not fair to be expecting from it.

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Our RV solar and lithium battery package

The first thing people thinking about RV solar and lithium need to know is that you need to know if that the more you have, the more you can do with it in terms of off-the-grid camping.

A 200-watt RV solar package with a single lithium 100 amp hour battery isn’t going to make the huge difference you often hear from RV salespeople.

And the 1,000 watt inverter systems that come with most RVs to convert that energy that solar puts in the batteries is woefully inadequate if you want to run things like a microwave, a hair dryer or an air conditioner.

When we bought our Arcadia this spring, we bought a package that had 600 watts of RV solar and 200 amp hours of lithium, with a 3,000-watt inverter.

That’s a very respectable system. It will even fire up one of our air conditioners equipped with a safe start to minimize the huge power bite the compressor takes when the AC unit…