Kind of embarrassing to show my ignorance here but I'm not clear on which items in the trailer draw their power from which sources. I found snippets of info in various forum questions, and some info in the owners manual (although I can't find that online anymore), but no answers to the real life application questions. This is my understanding (which may or may not be correct!):
- When connected to shore power everything runs off the shore power except for the stove and water heater which always run on propane.
- When not connected to shore power
- stove, water heater and fridge run on propane
- everything else runs from the battery
So how does all that change when you have solar? Are there things that won't run from the battery (ex. Microwave, AC?)? Or is it just that they draw so much power that you wouldn't want to? If you have solar does that supplement enough power to run the energy hog appliances? Do any appliances run directly from the solar power? Or is it just that the solar power is used to recharge the batteries and the appliances still run off the batteries? If you don't have solar power, how do the batteries recharge? Is it only when hooked up to shore power or maybe while traveling?
Told you I was confused!
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