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I designed the 12V electrical for my F-150 camper (and some friends’) and I could easily do 2 straight days of 40W with no recharge. My fridge pulls 50W when c
by treflop 2y ago
I designed the 12V electrical for my F-150 camper (and some friends’) and I could easily do 2 straight days of 40W with no recharge.
My fridge pulls 50W when cycling the compressor and my current 5G modem/router pulls 15W. Indoor lights draw over 20W alone on full tilt.
I have 200W of solar on my truck and my alternator does 400W and realistically I charge at around 550W on a good day so 40W is a drop in the bucket.
RVs can have much beefier systems than my setup. I don’t full time or anything — just long time camper for 10 years before van life was a thing, so my setup is relatively low capacity.
- nativeit 2y agoI mean, I doubt it was your intent to cast this unfavorably, and I certainly don't want to suggest you don't know what's best for you, but I read this as a receiver/router that pulls more power than all of your internal lighting, nearly as much (maybe more at peak) than your refrigerator, double that of a similar 5G device, and all of that strikes me as a really poor implementation. But I work a lot in embedded devices, so maybe I'm just overly sensitive...60W seems absurd for a set of radios and an SoC.