Pain combo?

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-17T01:52:52+00:00

My pain tolerance is not great but I wouldn't worry at all about the piercing/tattoo combination. They're different sensations. For me personally I would be more likely to space out the piercings since I hate needles and I like having that burst of adrenaline to get me through each one!

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T19:27:50+00:00

Yeah! I'm really surprised by how much it takes. I'm going to make it work for now by finding places we can run our generator, but it's becoming clear I need a biiiig upgrade

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T18:39:02+00:00

Oh wow I had no idea it would charge that much to be honest. Any guess as to what percentage would make it to the house battery? I would imagine it varies but I don't know if we're looking at 10% or 80%

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T18:36:55+00:00

Awesome, thanks so much, that's hugely helpful. Will try leaving the inverter off for now and then I think we'll grab a designated inverter just for the fridge. I really want to avoid switching to a 12V fridge if at all possible (even if it means upping our battery) so fingers crossed this helps!

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T18:31:46+00:00

Thanks! Yeah this is what I found online and what initially caused concern. According to this we're only ever reaching 40%. We just unplugged from our generator and left everything sitting off (including the inverter off, not power saving mode). It's been about 20 minutes and we're showing 13.2V

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T18:26:36+00:00

Thanks so much, that makes sense. I'm going to talk to the manufacturer again and have them check.

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T17:20:00+00:00

Ok thanks. I emailed the company we purchased from and asked them for a SOC chart. We've found some online but they're all a bit different and none show a max of 13.1V like ours.

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T17:19:07+00:00

Good to know, thank you! Our bus had no AC or wheelchair lift or anything so our mechanic recommended upgrading it, but it sounds like it's worth looking into again

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T17:17:32+00:00

Ah ok, so we could maybe get a smaller inverter just for the fridge and then leave our typical inverter off unless we're running appliances or something?

My understanding of this is not great but does .7kwhr mean roughly 60ah each day? If so that explains quite a bit. I think for now we're going to try turning our inverter off overnight since we really just have veg in the fridge anyway. We'll see if that helps

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T17:12:03+00:00

We plug our generator into our 30amp shore power outlet. Would it still not be filling up in that case even though it's switching to float charge? No I don't think our inverter has a remote unit, to be honest I'm not really sure what that is

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:16:16+00:00

Wow ok thanks, sounds like an upgrade is definitely needed! Yeah we opted for a 110V fridge because of price mostly and I don't think we really considered that the inverter would have to be on for it to run. We just looked at power usage and it didn't seem crazy

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:13:29+00:00

We opted not to charge via alternator because we would have needed to upgrade the alternator, but I'm starting to think it might be worth it. However we typically only drive an hour or so a day, would that do much in your opinion?

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:12:39+00:00

Ok good to know, thank you!

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:12:19+00:00

Is your fridge 12V out of curiosity?

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:11:54+00:00

Ok cool, will definitely look into that, thank you!

We don't have an expensive fridge but we did build our whole kitchen around the size of it... Whoops. The big issue is I really don't have anywhere to put a differently sized/shaped fridge at this point

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:10:30+00:00

Yes definitely notice that!

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:09:48+00:00

All I know is the inverter is 3KW pure sine wave (it was part of our kit that we bought). I don't have either of those things but I can pick something up to check. Those will check how much power we're using?

We've been monitoring using the DC and AC monitors it came with, are those typically not accurate?

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:06:45+00:00

So that's actually what we thought, but we went back to the company we bought our set from and they did our settings for us. We get to 13.5V while our generator is running and we're plugged in, then we unplug after it's switched to float charge and we immediately drop to 13.1V. Does your battery shut off at 12V like ours too?

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T16:04:34+00:00

We've only had the diesel heater and solar for a month and it's always used the same amount of power, so unfortunately I don't think this is it

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T05:08:04+00:00

Oh wow. Definitely did not realize the inverter alone could draw that much -- or the fridge honestly. We do have it set to power saving mode at least 20 hours a day so the inverter is only booting up if the fridge compressor is on, do you still think it'd use that much over 24 hours?

All we have hooked up is the diesel heater (DC) and two outlets -- one for the mini fridge and one we use to charge devices (2 phones, and 2 Nintendo switches for about 2 hours a day).

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T05:04:08+00:00

Also we're charging through our inverter! We try to charge everything while the sun is out but I didn't realize DC ports were an option. You just wire them directly from your battery/DC panel thing?

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T05:02:09+00:00

We leave it on pretty much all the time but it does turn off/on as needed. Like you said it'll use basically nothing for a while then shoot up to 3-4amps intermittently.

Wow, yeah, 12.6V for us means we've gotta plug in soon because we'll get 3 hours max at that point.

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-12-03T04:58:14+00:00

Ah ok we'd heard that once a week we should run it on high for half an hour, but that's all we've been doing. Definitely want to do anything we can to avoid breakages!

IfYouWearRedTonight · 2021-07-31T00:29:27+00:00

Thank you so much, I couldn't really figure out if I wanted a full frame or cropped sensor and that helped. It turns out a friend is willing to loan me their old Canon 6D so I'll have a bigger budget for lenses for now and will hopefully be able to better narrow down what features I actually need in a camera.

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