The Truth about RV Solar and Lithium Batteries

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

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🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It's time to tell the truth about RV solar and lithium batteries. Not that they aren't great to have. It's just that too many RVers have been talked into getting solar/lithium packages by unreasonable claims by RV salespeople who just don't understand the limits of the technology. Let me be very clear: We've been using RV solar and lithium batteries since 2015. Jen and I love RV solar and lithium batteries. We wouldn't have an RV without a robust systems and, indeed, we just did a major upgrade of the RV solar package and lithium battery bank on our Keystone Arcadie fifth wheel. But the key is having enough RV solar and lithium to do what the salespeople promise. This week, we talk to two experts as we explore the capabilities of our new system and learn about battery draw and what is reasonable and not reasonable to expect from it.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome to the RV podcast. This is episode 408. And this week, we tell you the truth about RV solar power and lithium batteries.
0:27.6	Hi, everybody. I'm Mike R. Lennellin, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer. And we're coming to you today from our RV property in Linden, Tennessee.
0:33.6	Woohoo!
0:34.6	Yeah, we're excited to be here, and the weather is a little bit cooler than yesterday, so that's
0:39.9	even better news.
0:40.9	Well, we should tell you, when we say a little bit cooler, it's 92 in the shade.
0:46.6	And the sun's about to come out.
0:47.7	We do hear some thunder, those afternoon thunderstorms that crop up in the summertime
0:51.6	in the south, we're probably going to get one but we are here
0:55.3	our property is developed now we have all of our utilities in but most importantly we have our
1:02.5	electricity in and that is what is really pretty pretty exciting to us because you might be
1:09.9	able to hear it running but the 50 amps in and
1:12.6	we're going to be here much of the week doing some work and some progress on kind of some of
1:18.6	our ideas and we're going to do a whole video on it for this coming Saturday but it's
1:23.6	really nice to be here so peaceful and and quiet. It's very exciting.
1:28.9	It is.
1:30.0	We had a rather adventurous trip down.
1:33.8	I don't know if you can see that window right there on our fifth wheel.
1:38.9	You see all that white?
1:40.4	That is really tape.
1:42.3	It's actually tape over a piece of plexiglass because somehow as we were driving down here, it broke. And we're not sure exactly what happened.
1:53.0	I really think one of you told us your ideas, and we agree with you, that the latch that you used to get out your emergency exit
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