Hello,
I am new here, and just purchased a new 2022 315rlts. I have been super frustrated with no answers from dealership as well as Grand Design on the solar package and what exactly “inverter prep” means. I have been researching this for weeks and no real answers. Same goes for the electric and how things work in this new trailer.
question 1. If I switch to 2 lithium (battle born batteries) can I just do that with plug and play? It has the Furion 50amp charge controller. Can I just switch that to lithium and be good to go?
question 2. If I want to say add another solar panel or two, along with inverter since it’s “inverter prep” is there a place I can just quickly wire it in, and add the solar panels on the roof? I am not sure if the roof is wired for extra solar panels already? With an inverter what plugs should work inside?
question 3: First trip out for a weekend the fridge stopped working. Connected to 50amp shore power, after 48 hours running. Checked breakers, fuses, power source (watch dog said all clear) I was in shock. The rookie me not thinking new from dealer, the batter switch the whole time was set to off. What’s weird to me is jack worked, slides went out, lights worked, fridge worked all when set up and pulling out of the shop from home to the camp site. So the battery shut off doesn’t really shut anything off. Anyways the main thing is why with shore power did the fridge not run? I know it’s a 12v fridge, my hunch is the batteries where supplying the power, with it in shut off mode, they weren’t charging and the fridge drained the batteries. (I didn’t think of checking battery level) once I switched the batter stitch back on, fridge had full power. Is my hunch correct? I just want to make sure I don’t have a bad converter or something.
I’m not needing a total Solar off grid set up yet. I just got the residential fridge and I am mainly pacific north west with limited sun and y’all know the amount of rain we get. I want to be able to have drive days or stay a night or two with not having to use the generator at night for extremely basic power amount. Mainly the fridge to work and maybe charge a phone and turn some lights on. So I’m leaning towards just some battle born batteries but I’d like to understand this solar system and what it powers, (assumption is just the fridge and batteries).
Thank you all for the help!
I am new here, and just purchased a new 2022 315rlts. I have been super frustrated with no answers from dealership as well as Grand Design on the solar package and what exactly “inverter prep” means. I have been researching this for weeks and no real answers. Same goes for the electric and how things work in this new trailer.
question 1. If I switch to 2 lithium (battle born batteries) can I just do that with plug and play? It has the Furion 50amp charge controller. Can I just switch that to lithium and be good to go?
question 2. If I want to say add another solar panel or two, along with inverter since it’s “inverter prep” is there a place I can just quickly wire it in, and add the solar panels on the roof? I am not sure if the roof is wired for extra solar panels already? With an inverter what plugs should work inside?
question 3: First trip out for a weekend the fridge stopped working. Connected to 50amp shore power, after 48 hours running. Checked breakers, fuses, power source (watch dog said all clear) I was in shock. The rookie me not thinking new from dealer, the batter switch the whole time was set to off. What’s weird to me is jack worked, slides went out, lights worked, fridge worked all when set up and pulling out of the shop from home to the camp site. So the battery shut off doesn’t really shut anything off. Anyways the main thing is why with shore power did the fridge not run? I know it’s a 12v fridge, my hunch is the batteries where supplying the power, with it in shut off mode, they weren’t charging and the fridge drained the batteries. (I didn’t think of checking battery level) once I switched the batter stitch back on, fridge had full power. Is my hunch correct? I just want to make sure I don’t have a bad converter or something.
I’m not needing a total Solar off grid set up yet. I just got the residential fridge and I am mainly pacific north west with limited sun and y’all know the amount of rain we get. I want to be able to have drive days or stay a night or two with not having to use the generator at night for extremely basic power amount. Mainly the fridge to work and maybe charge a phone and turn some lights on. So I’m leaning towards just some battle born batteries but I’d like to understand this solar system and what it powers, (assumption is just the fridge and batteries).
Thank you all for the help!
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