HOW LONG CAN A CARAVAN AIR CONDITIONER SURVIVE OFF GRID? THE ULTIMATE BATTERY TEST!

#caravan #australia #offgrid

Join us as we run a real time battery test to see how long we can last off grid with the Air conditioner running full time and living just like we are plugged into 240 power. We were thrown a very big curve ball at the end which made us have to stop the test a little early! Make sure to watch to the end to find out why!

Enjoy the episode!
Josh & Mikayla 🧡

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[Travellingcampers]

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[xtouring]

I’m building an Isuzu NPS. I’ve 1100watts of Solar, 2xDC/DC chargers, 400Ah of Lithium Batteries and a 3000W invertor, all Victron.

Thing I love most? The Victron Cerbo GX will run a Node Red Server. I can use Siri to turn things on and off such as lights, the invertor, water pump and air compressor.

I also can top up the batteries in the caravan.

Great info on the aircon, thanks!

[Marie-Firenze]

Thank you so much for this episode, found it very informative and helpful as we are researching for our first van purchase. 😊

[ryang]

Upgrading the battery in our 2025 Leader to 2x300ah, starting with 630w solar but also have 2x300w renogy panels to run in series/parallel if need to. Going to get victron MPPT installed for additional solar so dont have to stuff around with it when connecting additional solar. And have post cyclone generator worst case lol.

[adstar]

Hi mate, I am a sparky and agree. We have 620Ah in the Van (with 980w of solar) and 360Ah in the car. We have setup the van DC-DC so car decants power into van and uses car power first. This allows us to charge while we drive when un-hooked and bring power back to van at night. Great vid 👍

[discoveringwa]

I have just removed all the Jayco gear and installed 800 watts of solar, 400amps of lithium and a 3000 watt inverter, 100/ 60 solar controller and a 12/ 60 DC-DC charger, all Renogy gear run through a Renogy fused combiner box. Good system, but I am under no illusion that it will run the aircon, but it is not intended to. Maybe one day, bigger van, bigger system, but that is for another day. Great episode Josh, one of your better ones.

[louiegozzano]

Love this clip it really helped me out with a lot of useful information so thank you

[princeehp]

In our 2003 winnebago ultimate freedom we swapped the 4 6v golf cart batteries for two 460 AH temgot lithium batteries. Working to improve the system as we boondock full time. We are hoping to upgrade to a victron inverter soon for the efficiency and the xantrax inverter is on its last leg making all kinds of noises. We love the bluetooth capabilities of the temgot batteries. They are just so well built with the steal boxes and cool color scheme. And we all know if your gonna do something, you better look cool doing it. 😎 cheers y'all

[anthonylister]

22 ft Lotus Freelander, thanks to you Guys we went the 900 ah monster pack with the 5 x 200 w panels on the roof as well as 2 x solar blankets plug in ports .Also Czone Switching setup . Love the endless power when off grid 👌

[BordertotheShore]

Our 2016 Holden Colorado has a 180W panel, Redarc solar controller, Redarc DcDc charger, and a 140amp hour AGM battery…. Just enough for us to run our Engel fridge/freezer on our weekend trips away.
Great channel, keep up the fantastic videos 💯🇦🇺

[noahjbarr]

Isuzu Dmax with a DC to DC charger hooked up to 120 amp hour battery. Running a fridge at the moment 24/7! Nothing flash but does the job, love the relatively basic, convenient setup✅

Cheers guys, Happy Easter👌👍

[robertvd]

Hey guys awesome to see some informative articles being covered we have been very much looking into this exact subject. We are running 400ah lithium with 660watts solar on the roof of the van we want to install a inverter as we want to run our aircon off grid with the young family instead of having to book powered sites just to keep the kids comfy but as you said in the video this is not a cheap addition to get installed. We love the power usage and run time we get currently but would love to expand this system to be more open to off grid traveling.

[the.seekaz]

Hey Legend... We have 800watts on our roof plus a 200watt portable panel which we are changing now over to a kickass 300w portable, We hsve 600ah in total and a 3000w inverter & a Redarc battery management system.
Its enough to run all we need especially the air con as you mentioned use it to cool down and then just relax it. Mad episode once again Josh thanks and hopefully will see you out there soon 🤙🏻

[SollysOnTheRoad]

Great test cheers 👍just what we like to see real time testing

[rank]

I have a 300amp lithium battery in my hybrid, love it,

[rosscoht]

Mate first time someone has explained air conditioning, i fitout full off grid caravans and rvs . Trying to teach customers to stop setting to 16 degrees, i find 24 degrees is perfect getting the humidity down is first step. An ac will not pull down to 16 degrees on a hot day in a caravan

[wildtrackadventures]

Mr Murdoch we have a fully offgrid system in our gic black series patron forward fold wired the whole system myself with only the best (enerdrive) yeah that's right 200ah of lithium dc2dc charger and sitting on the boat rack is a 320watt solar panel . The way we camp we never need to plug in and when we are home just park it out in the backyard and it looks after itself 😅🎉 thanks for sharing your van power mate

[caravantravels-rw]

We add a cheap Kmart fan on the floor to help push the aircon air around the van. Makes a huge difference on battery load.

[shanedunlop]

Hi Travelling Campers. Very informative and love watching you guys. We have in our new Van 400 Amps of Lithium and 800 watts of Solar with 300 watt Inverter. This was as much as we could afford as we also went the airbag suspension. Would have loved an extra Battery. Maybe next time. Great to see how long it will last as I have tried it for a couple of hours and went down to 80%. Great tips thanks very much.

[erinl]

Happy Easter guys, we have a new van lined up for December! Can’t wait. 800w of solar, 3000w inverter, 400Ah lithium battery. Hoping it’s enough to go out in the bush. Enjoy your new van guys