Country Coach intrigue 32 ft (((((Solar install)))))

I think I'm finally done. That inverter has a temperature range of -40 up to 150°. Need to figure out at what temperature to turn my fans off and on. Optimum temperature of course is 75 to 77.
 

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Hmmmm.
 

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Well it's finally all put together and everything seems to work as it should. Probably give it all a test run in a month or two. Hoping to make it out to the dunes maybe March and April with it.
 

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Make sure zero dust gets in that inverter compartment. Mine was only 18 months old and stopped working from dust damaged. I had to buy a new one, no warranty for dust.
 
Pennywise said:
Make sure zero dust gets in that inverter compartment. Mine was only 18 months old and stopped working from dust damaged. I had to buy a new one, no warranty for dust.
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That box is pretty airtight other than the two filters. Should work well. At least I hope so.
 
onanysunday said:
That box is pretty airtight other than the two filters. Should work well. At least I hope so.
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Mine was not, I had it in the compartment opposite the side radiator. My coach makes a huge fricken dust cloud from the radiator fan. Even though I was still surprised it broke, the stock one had no issues with the dust. I opened it up and it really didn’t have a lot of dust inside. I’m sending it in for repair, curious to see what failed.

I was also surprised that the Multiplus has no passive 110v by-pass. When it quit working we had no 110V on any of the circuits powered by the inverter, even with the geni on.
 
Pennywise said:
Mine was not, I had it in the compartment opposite the side radiator. My coach makes a huge fricken dust cloud from the radiator fan. Even though I was still surprised it broke, the stock one had no issues with the dust. I opened it up and it really didn’t have a lot of dust inside. I’m sending it in for repair, curious to see what failed.

I was also surprised that the Multiplus has no passive 110v by-pass. When it quit working we had no 110V on any of the circuits powered by the inverter, even with the geni on.
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Yeah my fan blows a crazy amount of dust. I made a deflector to block a good portion of it. You would think they would be more robust and be able to handle more. Interesting. I don't think very much dust is going to get in my box. I have an obscene amount of hours building this whole thing so hopefully it holds up.
 
This thing sat down at the diesel shop for 3 months getting a new radiator put in it. Finally actually able to test the system this week. On an 80° day in Phoenix this time of year I let the fridge run all night and it drew my two batteries down 8%. That is 630 amp hours total for both. They charged back up to 100% by 10:00 a.m. .
 
onanysunday said:
This thing sat down at the diesel shop for 3 months getting a new radiator put in it. Finally actually able to test the system this week. On an 80° day in Phoenix this time of year I let the fridge run all night and it drew my two batteries down 8%. That is 630 amp hours total for both. They charged back up to 100% by 10:00 a.m. .
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How much solar did you put on your roof? Sounds really fast for a morning recharge. Also should not have depleted to 8% overnight unless the batteries were not full when you started, or you were running other loads.
 
Kat-A-Tonic said:
How much solar did you put on your roof? Sounds really fast for a morning recharge. Also should not have depleted to 8% overnight unless the batteries were not full when you started, or you were running other loads.
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I'm thinking he is saying it drew it down BY 8%, so to 92% SOC.
 
Kat-A-Tonic said:
How much solar did you put on your roof? Sounds really fast for a morning recharge. Also should not have depleted to 8% overnight unless the batteries were not full when you started, or you were running other loads.
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kazuaki said:
I'm thinking he is saying it drew it down BY 8%, so to 92% SOC.
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It went down 8% with 92% left. That is the GE 11.5 cubic foot residential fridge. During the day the solar panels keep it running without needing to draw or charge the batteries. Pretty cool how the whole system works. I know somewhere in this thread I put what size panels I have. Let me try find it.
 
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