Hi, I have an old cabover camper I just got and it uses an 8 pin connection to run the fridge and water pump from the batteries up front. I am trying to boondock for long periods and have a limited budget so I am hoping this might work although I realize it won't be very efficient but it will hopefully only be a temporary setup as I want to get a bit nicer camper and this one is on it's last legs.
I want to connect a 100w renogy panel through their 30amp pwm controller to a 150ah agm battery and then run that to a 1000w pure sine inverter. Here's where it gets weird.. From that inverter I want to run a battery maintainer/charger (the 3amp charging type) to the front batteries. From reading about the 3amp charger maintainer I believe it bypasses the batteries when any load is trying to be pulled from them so if I understand correctly it would essentially be using the inverter power to run the small loads it would detect.
The pitfall/s I'm guessing are it might be confusing to the charge controller or maybe it would short out somewhere in this weird loop. I really won't be using much power and I am mostly just trying to run my propane fridge for a week or two without getting stranded by somehow bypassing the car batteries up front. I also considered wiring an 8 pin to a different marine battery I have somehow but I'd have to research that a bit to see if that's possible or even a good idea.
I think the fridge is hard wired to the battery up front because if I plug the camper into shore power the gas ignition doesn't spark so plugging the camper into the inverter doesn't solve my issue. There is a plug from the fridge that I haven't tried plugging into the inverter because I think it's a 12v plug and I'd need some kind of adapter or something otherwise I might damage the fridge?
Any thoughts or advice are greatly appreciated. Thanks Alex
I want to connect a 100w renogy panel through their 30amp pwm controller to a 150ah agm battery and then run that to a 1000w pure sine inverter. Here's where it gets weird.. From that inverter I want to run a battery maintainer/charger (the 3amp charging type) to the front batteries. From reading about the 3amp charger maintainer I believe it bypasses the batteries when any load is trying to be pulled from them so if I understand correctly it would essentially be using the inverter power to run the small loads it would detect.
The pitfall/s I'm guessing are it might be confusing to the charge controller or maybe it would short out somewhere in this weird loop. I really won't be using much power and I am mostly just trying to run my propane fridge for a week or two without getting stranded by somehow bypassing the car batteries up front. I also considered wiring an 8 pin to a different marine battery I have somehow but I'd have to research that a bit to see if that's possible or even a good idea.
I think the fridge is hard wired to the battery up front because if I plug the camper into shore power the gas ignition doesn't spark so plugging the camper into the inverter doesn't solve my issue. There is a plug from the fridge that I haven't tried plugging into the inverter because I think it's a 12v plug and I'd need some kind of adapter or something otherwise I might damage the fridge?
Any thoughts or advice are greatly appreciated. Thanks Alex