20VJ electric question

[Dmarcian]

My wife and I will soon be traveling from South Florida to San Diego through the Southwest. It will be a three week trip and we expect a lot of hot weather. We normally grill out but realize with the hot weather we may want to use the convection oven. My question is when on shore power is it safe to use the convection oven while running the ac? We turned on the micro once while on generator power while the ac was running and the generator bogged down and the ac quit. I will never do that again. What about shore power though, is that safe? Thanks.

[Winterbagoal]

You have the propane generator? If so, shore power might handle both loads better. If you have the QD then I'm surprised the AC quit when you started the MW. Our QD will run both.

[Dmarcian]

Sorry, should have mentioned I have diesel generator. And I agree my generator should have been able to handle both.

[crah]

Originally Posted by Dmarcian

Sorry, should have mentioned I have diesel generator. And I agree my generator should have been able to handle both.

You've mentioned you were having battery drain down problems in one of your other threads. Did you ever get to the bottom of that? I believe in the other thread, I mentioned that your your inverter charger is capable of charging up to 80 amps to your lithium batteries if they are really run down.

If your batteries were really low, and you tried the AC and the micro, I could see that causing it to shut down.

If no other big loads are going on, the AC and the convection oven should have no problem at the same time.

[Goodspike]

I'd be more worried about the AC being able to keep up in the heat with the convection oven adding even more heat. I'd probably just tough it out cooking outside, coming inside when I could. Or use the microwave as much as possible.