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| RVers make an Alaskan Roadtrip easier!In June I purchased a 1250 watt inverter to be installed in our SunnyBrook travel trailer 26 cks. For several years my wife and I had planned on making the Alaska road trip in the summer of 2005. Our plans called for dry camping in several provincial parks in Canada and state and national parks in Alaska. In nearly all of those places we would not have electricity hookups available. We have a gas generator but did not want to take it along primarily because of the noise and fume factor as well as the logistic hassle of hauling it in the tow vehicle and putting it outside to run it. We also did not want to buy more 12 volt items that we would be using along the way, namely, TV/DVD, hair dryer & curling irons, toaster, etc.
We decided to go the inverter route and selected the 1250 watt because it would convert sufficient wattage to run the items we wanted to use in drying camping. We connected the 1250 inverter to two deep cycle batteries (24T85) and in talking with customer support staff at Invertersrus calculated that this arrangement would provide the wattage capacity to run the various items for a two day period. We arrived back home last month from our 10,020 mile road trip and we were very pleased with the inverter option. For the occasions where we dry camped for 2 and 3 day stays we had plenty of power to run the TV/DVD, hair dryer, curling iron, toaster, electric shaver, recharge the batteries for all of our photo equipment, recharge a cordless drill and run a Shank turbo handvac. On one occasion we dry camped for two - 2 day stays with only a short driving distance between the two locations and thus the deep cycle batteries did not have time to fully recharge in that short distance. On the morning of the 4th day the batteries were too low to use any of the items mentioned so we merely started the tow vehicle up and let it run while we finished up the chores etc in preparation to break camp and move on.
I am now studying the possibility of acquiring another inverter and setting up a stand-by system for a couple of sump pumps for our basement. We have high ground water during the peak of the summer irrigation season and if we lose power due to lightning strikes or whatever for 6 hours of more we would have a flooded basement. With this system in place we could go on our various trips during the summer and whoever we would have to care for our place in our absence would have up to 2 days leeway before needing to drag out the gas generator to run the pumps in the event that the public utility was not able to restore electric service for several days.
James D.
Longmont, CO
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