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Power a Whole RV Rig with Air Conditioning

0 stations cover the sourced energy and running load; 79 fail at least one check. No source publishes a startup surge for RV rooftop air conditioner (Truma Aventa eco, 13,500 BTU) or RV refrigerator (Dometic RC10 class), so this plan cannot confirm any station will start it.

Energy per day: 10,860 Wh
Running load: 1,364 W
Worst-start surge: 1,364 W
Required delivered energy: 10,860 Wh
Stations passing: 0
Stations failing: 79

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By the BatteryRank Engineering Team

01 · Load manifest

Every load in the calculation

Average draw applies each sourced duty cycle; energy is average draw × quantity × daily hours × scenario days.

Sourced device loads and calculated energy
Device	Quantity	Hours / day	Average draw	Scenario energy	Source
RV rooftop air conditioner (Truma Aventa eco, 13,500 BTU)AC	1	8	1,260 W	10,080 Wh	Source · 2026-07-20
RV refrigerator (Dometic RC10 class)DC	1	24	17.5 W	420 Wh	Source · 2026-07-20
LED lamp (60W-equivalent bulb)AC	4	6	9 W	216 Wh	Source · 2026-07-06
Wi-Fi router + modemAC	1	8	18 W	144 Wh	Source · 2026-07-06

02 · Reading the plan

What the numbers for a whole RV rig with air conditioning leave out

What this situation actually demands

This is the rare plan that looks like it fits and does not. The manifest asks for 10,860 Wh delivered in a single day, and the biggest nameplate in the catalogue is 12,288 Wh — 1,428 Wh of apparent headroom. It disappears in the conversion. Pushing 10,440 Wh of that through an inverter at the 85% efficiency this site publishes costs 12,282 Wh out of the cells, the 420 Wh the refrigerator takes on 12 V costs another 467, and the plan needs 12,749 Wh of battery before a single percent is held back as reserve. Nameplate energy is not delivered energy, and here the gap between the two is the entire answer.

Where these plans go wrong

Reading the manifest as a list. Four lines are shown and one of them is the page: the air conditioner is 10,080 Wh, and the refrigerator, four lamps, and router come to 780 Wh between them — about 7% of the day. Close to thirteen days of the rest of the rig fit inside one night of the air conditioner. The consequence is that trimming is pointless and the only variable that moves this plan is hours: each one costs 1,260 Wh delivered, so the real question is never which station runs the AC, it is how long anything does.

What this plan does not model

Two assumptions decide most of this, and the larger one overstates the load. The eight hours are a planning choice rather than a thermostat reading, and the modelled unit is treated as drawing its full 1,260 W continuously across all of them — real rooftop units cycle, and a shaded rig in mild night air cycles a great deal. A duty of two-thirds would take 3,360 Wh straight off the day. Nothing rescues the plan from there, though: no source publishes a startup surge for this compressor, so even a station that somehow held the energy could not be confirmed to start it.

03 · Station picks

Zero ways to cover the plan

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Questions from the same calculation

How much power do you need for a whole RV rig with air conditioning?: 10,860 Wh of delivered energy over 1 day, drawing 1,364 W if every device runs at once. RV rooftop air conditioner (Truma Aventa eco, 13,500 BTU) alone is 93% 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 1,364 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 1 day that difference compounds.
Does dropping the lights, router, and refrigerator help?: No, and that is worth knowing before you shop. Everything on this plan except the air conditioner comes to 780 Wh, so deleting all of it still leaves 10,080 Wh to find — the same arithmetic, minus the parts that were never the problem. There is nothing to economise here: the plan is one appliance with three witnesses.
How much air conditioning does a portable power station actually buy?: Think in hours rather than nights. An hour costs 1,260 Wh delivered, and a nominal 2,000 Wh battery has roughly 1,700 Wh to give through an inverter at 85% — a little over an hour, and only if it can start the compressor at all. That is a genuine use for taking the edge off an afternoon. It is not a way to sleep through a hot night.
What does cover this, if nothing in the catalogue does?: A generator, a powered pitch, or a permanently installed house bank fed by the alternator and the roof. All three are ordinary answers among full-timers and none of them is a portable power station, so BatteryRank has no sourced data to rank them with. We would rather tell you the plan is out of scope than point you at the biggest unit here and let the arithmetic embarrass you in August.