hello welcome back to how to rv i am jason and today i wanted to answer your question that
you've had about whether or not we can run our air conditioner on our inverter and our solar setup
also before we get started today i want to say a special thank you to enduropower for sponsoring
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enduro power i'll leave all the information in the description down below now in my system i
have a 2000 watt inverter and i have a 200 watt hour 12 volt battery but i know that i have
at least 2 400 watts of total capacity from the battery before the battery is empty so if i have 2
400 watts of total battery power and i have a 2000 watt inverter i only have a little bit over an
hour before i'm going to use up all of my battery but in this case we want to talk about the air
conditioner itself and what kind of power does it pull and how long is this system going to maintain
itself before i run out of battery capacity just running the air conditioner all by itself now to
show you what i'm talking about i'm gonna go ahead and turn the air conditioner on that way
you can see what i'm talking about all right so with the display over here you can see where the
air conditioner is coming on then after a little while you go see the watts kick up it's gonna be
over 2000 watts and then shortly thereafter it's going to be about 1500 watts 1600 watts or so
now if you take the battery that we have that we talked about a minute ago at 2400 watts
you can see over here where we're running with the air conditioner pretty much by itself that we're
pulling about 15 or 1600 watts now if you look at the bottom of the display over here you'll see
where we have a little bit over an hour's worth of run time now let's do a little bit of math
here to talk about why it's just a little bit over an hour if you take that 2 400 watts that we have
with that battery and you divide that by the watts that we're running with the air conditioner you'll
see that we have just a little bit over an hour's worth of run time so with all that being said you
asked can i run my air conditioner on my system that i currently have and the answer in this case
is yes it'll actually run it but it'll only run it for a little over an hour but there are a couple
of things that i want to add here and that is that the inverter that i have is a 2000 watt inverter
which is technically not big enough to run the air conditioner even though it will start up the air
conditioner the reason that my 2000 watt inverter will run it is because it has a peak of 4000 watts
meaning that it will give enough power for the air conditioner to run now even though that the
inverter is powerful enough to start up the air conditioner when i turned it on you could hear a
real low dip that means that the air conditioner and the system itself is really fighting against
each other to get up and running but nevertheless it did it started the air conditioner and there's
a reason why i wanted to tell you all this and that is because the system is not necessarily
designed in order to run the air conditioner and the fact that the air conditioner only can run a
little over an hour it's not really meant for that kind of thing the reason for the system
is to be able to run off grid not to run the air conditioner but to be able to maintain itself off
grid and what i mean by that is that i'm going to be boondocking from time to time and typically the
wife and i want to do that kind of camping when it's in the cooler months so your fall your winter
and your spring and because we want to boondock or be off grid in those seasons we're typically
not going to be running the air conditioner as a matter of fact in the winter time we're going to
be running the heater instead so there will be some videos coming as temperatures cool off as
the fall approaches and the winter time comes but until that time comes i wanted to at least answer
the questions that you had around air conditioners running off of a system like this and is it
capable of doing so all right off to the comments so the first comment comes from howard lucken or
howard lucan if i've mispronounced your name i apologize but anyway in this comment there's a
lot of detail in there a lot of questions being asked but there is one that i wanted to focus on
and that part of the comment he says i've also been having trouble with the stink apparently
from the kitchen gray tanks now i wanted to pull this part out especially because i wanted to talk
about smell coming from your gray tanks there are a couple of different things that your rv
needs to do in order to prevent smell coming back from the tanks into your rv one of those
has to do with what they call a p-trap under your sink if you follow the drain pipe it'll come down
curve go back up and then into wherever it's going to drain to the reason for that p-trap is it keeps
a little bit of fluid in there which keeps gases from being able to get back now the next comment
comes from kevin he's talking about the video where we were talking about the black tank flush
and he asked in his comment he says does it only flush the black tank not the gray tank right
thanks so to answer your question kevin yes it only does the black tank it flushes out
all that gunk and buildup that you dump into it as you're going to the bathroom and then flushes
all that out the line so that the tank is nice and clear and clean and for the next comment is
from george marshall he says do a video on how to replace a suburban 6 gallon hot water tank
mine is only a 2016 and it's leaking it works fine but leaks badly george i did a video not long ago
talking about where i had taken out this water heater and put in a tankless water
heater and i'm glad that you asked this question i'm contemplating the fact that maybe putting that
water heater back in and taking the tankless water heater back out thank you for stopping by today
enjoy your boondocking off-gridding if you so wish to do so and until the next time god bless