how many deep cycle marine rv batteries does it take to operate the 1600 inverter without constant charging on about half load
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This is used in a semi-truck to run coolers,tv microwave and lights. It is connected to the truck batteries and hasn't depleted the 2 truck batteries. So I don't use special batteries, just auto batteries.
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That depends on the load you will be using, just a radio, lights, and a drill only need 1 battery, powering a 900w piece of equipment you will need more batteries if you are going to run it for more than 30-45 mins.
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Repoleved pretty much answered the question. It depends on how much you use the battery and how much you drain down the charge. Mine runs a circulation pump for my solar water heater. I have a 12 boat (deep cycle) and it always seems to keep it charged up. When my panel arrived it had a cold solder joint and I had to re solder it to make a good connection, and you need to figure out how to mount it.
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This device doesn`t support the batterys.Your Charge controller & solar panels determon what charge is in your batterys. The amount of amps drawn from your battery to run this device is determoned by how much power your load is drawing from the inverter.I have 30 deep cycle marine batterys supplying power to my 2500 watt inverter & I run two 1000 watt electric heaters, my frig. and house lights when I have a good supply of sunlight charging my batterys at 14.3 volts from three 40 amp charge controllers.I have at times seen this inverter draw my batterys down on a very cloudy day to 9.6 volts and still put out 115 volts.Any lower battery voltage and the inverter will shut down, but will come back on automatically as soon as the battery voltage gets built back high enough to run the inverter.
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Hi ThereI run the inverter off of a 27D size 12 volt battery on my boat that is charged from a 120 amp alternator off of the motor.
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That is going to depend on how discharged the batteries get each night. To give you an idea of what to expect, I have a 1600 ah battery bank and 6 panels. They are able to fully charge the batteries each day as long as it is sunny. They produce around 30 amps for about 5 hours mid day in February. With 2 panels I would expect 10 amps. I am in northern Nevada, farther south you should get more sun/power.
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I use two 6 volt trojan T105 in series for the house bank of my sail boat. I have minimal power requirements apart from powering my refrigeration system. The 200 W kit from Renogy seems to do the job quite well keeping the battery bank charged.
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I used a 12 volt deep cycle marine battery. I had purchased this solar panel, and also an 800 watt inverter. Along with the deep cycle battery as I mentioned, I was able to run my C-Pap machine (I have sleep apnea) at Elk hunting camp for 7 days. I like the solar panel a lot!
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Sometimes its better to buy a deep cycle Marine battery if you want a ton of Amps and juice..Keep it charged
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i use it to charge two deep cycle batteries on our camper. the batteries do not get heavy use but it does the job.
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This Go Power unit can take 1500 Watts on a constant basis, and surge (briefly) to 3000 watts. I have tested this unit with a large frost free refrigerator, and a small 5CF freezer, connected to a 4 deep cell battery bank. This unit ran flawlessly and even after 36 hours, I still had over 65% battery power left! A good solid unit! I spent a lot of time researching inverters, before I decided on this one. Glad I did.
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I have not tried loading the inverter at its full 600W, but have connected one intended for 12V panels (I think expecting 10 to 30 volts) to a 24 volt system battery... which ran it very fast and hot, but it complained and shut down when the voltage got too much for it, cooling off and ran again. Unless you do have cold and very sunny conditions, the peak loading is never for very long, and I have never had the full output from them. I'm surprised to see other reviewers with bad experiences. I would believe the protection circuits they use.
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I don`t know what the limit is but I have five in parallel.Each one is fed by two panels hooked in series rated at 280 watts each.Thats a total of 10 panels feeding 30 deep cycle marine batterys.All of which qualify for a 30% rebate off my federal incom taxes.Never. Never,Never apply solar panel power to these Tracer units befor you hook up your battery power to the controllers.I found out the hard and expensive way that the controller needs the battery power to regulate the current coming from the solar panels.No regulation equals high current from the solar panels and a burned out control unit..Good luck. I don`t know what the limit is but I have five in parallel.Each one is fed by two panels hooked in series rated at 280 watts each.Thats a total of 10 panels feeding 30 deep cycle marine batterys.All of which qualify for a 30% rebate off my federal incom taxes.Never. Never,Never apply solar panel power to these Tracer units befor you hook up your battery power to the controllers.I found out the hard and expensive way that the controller needs the battery power to regulate the current coming from the solar panels.No regulation equals high current from the solar panels and a burned out control... » Read More I don`t know what the limit is but I have five in parallel.Each one is fed by two panels hooked in series rated at 280 watts each.Thats a total of 10 panels feeding 30 deep cycle marine batterys.All of which qualify for a 30% rebate off my federal incom taxes.Never. Never,Never apply solar panel power to these Tracer units befor you hook up your battery power to the controllers.I found out the hard and expensive way that the controller needs the battery power to regulate the current coming from the solar panels.No regulation equals high current from the solar panels and a burned out control unit..Good luck. « Show Less
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Yes, But you will have to periodically keep re-charging that Marine battery! Hooked up and turned on means the Inverter is pulling a bit of current even when nothing is plugged into it, To not use up the battery you need to just turn it on when needed. Make sure you put fuses from the battery to the inverter also!
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I use a deep cycle marine battery with a 45 watt solar panel charging it. Keeps ice cream hard in the desert camping
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Any inexpensive marine deep cycle battery will do. But remember if you use an independent battery it will need to be charged between uses.
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I use Size #4 Cable between paralleled batteries and between the battery and inverter. (The smaller #6 would be OK, but I like #4.) Keeping batteries charged is important: as voltage goes down, current goes up, and inverter can get a bit hot. I use solar panels (4 x 15 watt=60 watt) to keep my bank of 6 batteries topped off. As long as the battery is OK, charging and using inverter at same time will not be a problem. (Charger may get battery voltage up near 14V during peak charge, but this is better than too low of voltage.)
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you are correct. the more deep cell batteries you have the more you can convert to elec. you will also need and inverter to change the dc power to ac. power. i have 8 of these panels and 9 deep cell batteries, and a 3600ac converter. this allows me to power my computer, printer, monitor, tv, and vcr/dvd player. for 4-5 hrs. the queastion is how much do you want to power?