{"id":5446,"date":"2009-05-24T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/dc-system-power-consumption\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T14:27:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T19:27:40","slug":"dc-system-power-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/dc-system-power-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"DC System Power Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"
Regarding the recent question and answer on DC vs big gensets, we are just getting ready to move after sitting for six days. Genset has been run once for two hours during a wash\/dry cycle in this period. Prior to warming up the engines just now battery capacity stood at 52%.<\/p>\n
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This is after fairly heavy usage of AC power (from our inverters) for two computers during the six days. One of these is a lap top, the other an Imac with a 25″ monitor and a secondary 24″ monitor. Two movies were also watched during this period (42″ plasma TV), and almost all cooking has been electric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"