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I know you've got cloth awnings on the bus but I couldn't help myself when you mentioned putting a solar panel on an awning. This little hundred-dollar panel from Amazon charges to 8D gel batteries. It's the only charged source I use and it more than keeps those two batteries charged up for me for what little I need I have a small residential fridge and a little TV at night that I watch 3 or 4 hours and what I use by night this panel replaces by day and I could go indefinitely I just don't understand why solar is it more prevalent with the buses. I've mentioned it before they have solar fabric somebody needs to make the whole top side of the awning one big solar panel with solar fabric.
When you guys are boondocking on inverter it's really not necessary to leave the inverters constant on it's also beneficial if you turn them off because they're using voltage just idling whether there's a load on them or not. Usually it's the refrigerator that quite possibly could be the only constant load that you need to keep going if the weather is fair. So get to know your fridge see how long it takes for the compressor to cycle off and do some testing and run the inverter 4 an hour every three or four hours and when it's running make sure that the thermostat on the fridge is set all the way over to cold so it runs the whole time. huge battery Banks you guys got in them buses only God knows how long you could go with some solar panels if you didn't run the inverters constant on when boondocking. Coordinate your other loads with the runtime for the fridge and then just turn it on for the intermittent loads when you need them andthen turn them back off. How dare I even suggest this for Prevo. We should get together and have an Enduro camping contest let's go out to Quartzsite and see who can hang out the longest on the provisions that you carry out there with you wouldn't that be fun.
Great thread Fred have fun testing and playing around.
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