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[scrubjaysnest]

Just a slight update. At Cataloochee CG in Smoky MTN NP there was so much shade the best we saw from the panels 10 amps for about 15 minutes. This meant we let the batteries get down to about 70% and would run the jenny long enough to bring the SOC charge back to about 81 %. Getting above that requires to many hours of jenny run time for the small gain.

We are thinking about adding a 2000 watt inverter to run the reefer while changing CG's. Reefer temps were fine all summer with it off between CG's but sometimes we may need to keep it cool. We don't run the propane when on the highway, seen to many MH fires over the years. When we had the class C back in the early 90's we did run it on propane but got really uncomfortable with that idea. The last two TT we could run the reefer on DC while the TV was running.

Need to make up short 10 awg extensions so the portable panels can be separated a little more. Sometimes at Cataloochee we had two panels in sun but no room for the third.