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Originally Posted by padlin
Thinking about Ronn's original post about power use. He states they used the 2 pc's for 10 hrs. The adapters feed 90 and 65 watts, so 155 watts for 10 hours, if they output the max wattage which they probably don't. 1550 watts / 12v = 130 amps, not including inverter overhead, if I'm doing this right his results with the batteries being down to 60% isn't surprising, although this doesn't jive with the 2.1A max load he saw.
Another thought. When checking the voltage, which is what the GoPower uses and converts to the % it shows, any load makes the voltage figure look lower then it really is, turn off the load and the number goes up to it's static level. On my trailer, if the batteries are say 12.6 v, and I kick on the inverter and start the toaster, the reading goes to something like 11.9. When the toaster finishes and I kill the inverter, the voltage goes back up to 12.6 +/-.
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Thanks for the input Bob, as I now understand it the 2.1 amp was solar input and I only saw that the one time. Most of the time it was well under 1.0. We were under heavy canopy and cloud cover.
We are now under clear to moderate skies with the solar leaning away from the sun. We are using more electrical now than before and the solar has been gaining on us since about 10 am (Montana). Also thanks for the good info on the actual voltage number will be when we are not under a load.