- How much power do you need for an RV refrigerator and lights?
- 1,272 Wh of delivered energy over 2 days, drawing 86 W if every device runs at once. RV refrigerator (Dometic RC10 class) alone is 66% of that energy, so it is the load worth measuring first — the rest of the manifest barely moves the answer.
- What decides whether a station can start this setup?
- Nothing in this manifest has a motor or compressor start above its running draw, so the 86 W continuous figure is the real inverter requirement. That is unusual — most outage plans are gated by a startup spike rather than by running watts.
- Does running the DC loads on 12 V actually change the result?
- Yes. RV refrigerator (Dometic RC10 class) is planned on the station's DC output, which skips the inverter conversion entirely. The same hardware on an AC outlet would draw the same work from the battery plus the conversion overhead, and over 2 days that difference compounds.
- Can a 200 W panel simply run this?
- Very nearly. The modelled harvest is 560 Wh against a 636 Wh day — 88% of it — which leaves a net drain of 76 Wh and stretches a two-day plan past a fortnight on the same battery. The caveat is that 88% is a clear-sky figure, and the battery still has to carry every night on its own.
- Are four LED lamps really worth counting?
- On this plan yes, and it is the only one here where that is true. 216 Wh of lighting is a third of the day, and moving those lamps onto the rig's own 12 V fixtures removes both the energy and the reason the inverter is awake at all. Everywhere else on this site lighting never rises above a tenth of the manifest and is genuinely ignorable — here it is the second line and the only one you can move.
- When this many stations pass, what actually decides the purchase?
- Things this plan does not measure. At 86 W of running load nothing in the catalogue is stretched and the energy is small enough that most of the field clears it, so the sizing checks stop discriminating between candidates. What is left is the weight you personally carry to the pitch, whether it recharges from the vehicle while you drive, and how it behaves left in a hot rig — and only the first of those is on this site as a sourced number.