Recent content by Bill B

Dual pane windows - big difference in heat, cool, SOUND. All the insulation they offer Heat pump instead of just A/C's --- 3x the heat for the same amount of electric even southern Texas was cold this year - as in 1 mile north of the Rio Grande river "Look past the eyewash" -- all the glitz...

Gary - Agree that the current engines stoichiometric (clean) burn ratio's on the modern engines do a very good job. What happens is at reduced air pressure of altitude, you get less oxygen in the cylinder to burn the gas. Therefore, the computer / injectors put less fuel in, it still balanced...

Hey Bud - here's another part of the deal - I posted on the other topic also. A - you move at your own pace - your retired - that means that if it takes you 1 day (silly), 2 weeks, or a month to get there, so be it. B - Your temp house is behind you. It has your bed / bath / kitchen. If on...

From the other posts - your planning on wintering warm, live in Quebec, and retired. From Quebec to -- Florida, Texas - your going to hit a hill or 2. You loose 3% per 1000' of elevation in a gas engine. You have to factor that in. It is also a (Montreal to Tampa) 1500 mile trek or Texas...

Gas and diesel - naturally aspirated gas engines are measured at sea level. As they go up in elevation, they lose 3% of their power per 1000' rise. So if your at 5K feet, your down 15% in engine. 10K (in the Rockies) your down 30%. Hmmm... climbing a hill and let me take 30% of your engine away...

Another thought --- along with the above. Put your steady loads -- water heater, charger, frig on shore power and use the inverter off the batteries for house. When your on limited power, the batteries are working as a storage tank for power. Say your at a friends house, and you decide to use...

Doc's got this nailed ---except, The neutral is also allowed to be derated more. Remember that it is carrying the unbalanced load. Now to play the what if game. Many of the bigger coaches come with inverters, which will run most everything in the coach. All coaches will run off 30 amps (not...

Thanx for the update

Streaming is data intensive. DVD capacity is about 4.7 gigabyte. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD A BluRay is about 50 gig http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc I hope you have a good data plan. Or, hard wired cable / Fios / with unlimited data. FYI Our full time data usage is about 11...

Dizz - The charging line AND return (ground) does a very minimal job when towing. Just too far, too lite of wire etc. And at night, with the running lights on it drops even more, that pesky return path (ground) might have an extra 10 amps or so from the lights. Depending on the electrical...

Ford 7.3 diesel, manual 6 speed I used to have to idle while waiting on a shipment (2-3 hours) in low temps (40*F to less). This was after a 50 mile run at 65 so everything was at temp. I had disconnected the A/C compressor, blocked the radiator (heat loss) and would run the heater on Max cool...

Sorry Ned - got 1/2 through the reply above, must have hit something and there it was and then my internet connection died. Or, MS did something because the computer jumped into an update. Everything about my setup is custom and cherry picked. 8D AGM batteries 800 watts of solar on 2 Outback...

Ned - I'll agree with you on a 99% basis. For a standard inverter and an engine driven generator (non- inverter genny - not the Honda I-series, Yamaha I series) you are correct. But, there is a whole different class of inverters out there that will parallel with the electrical grid - designed...

I knew what you meant John. As Jenny sounds 'new to this", I just wanted to emphasize the NO IRON point. And Gary rightly called us both on the NPT. Jenny, I hope that you got the no metal to the tank part. That is the important thing that we are all saying, just differently.

One of the things that you guys are missing is - the inverter and the generator are running in parallel. Both are supplying 120 AC to the A/C. So you have 1600 watts coming from the genny and the rest (for starting, incidental loads, coming from the inverter. So, say the A/C runs with 10 amps...