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28/11/2018 at 11:51am
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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Yes indeed you can manage without electricity. I used to do it with my boat all the time, and I was often away on the river for two weeks at a time. The only place I could get mains power was on my home moorings. However, I didn't use any mains appliances, only 12 volt ones. I cooked with gas and my fridge was a compressor type. I had planned to fit diesel heating, but never got round to it. I did however have two massive leisure batteries giving me about 250ah, and I generally only stayed in one place overnight. I had a good split-charge system so my batteries got a good charge every time we moved on.
I did have one mains socket onboard but I only ever used it when I was hooked up to the mains on my home moorings, to run power tools or my battery charger.
One other thing to remember about using inverters is that they drain battery power themselves if they are switched on, even without anything connected to them. This is why I say they are inefficient for running things like phone chargers. If you connect an ordinary mains phone charger through an inverter to the battery, you will use whatever the phone charger draws plus whatever the inverter uses, and the bigger the inverter the more power it takes to run it. The inverter will probably take far more power out of the battery than the phone charger would take.
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Best Regards,
Colin
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