Awning or Sunshade ?

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sweet caroline

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I am very much a NEWBIE , with my Bentley Cobalt, and booking sites, it states Awning booking EXTRA?
Does a Sunshade from your van, but with no sides, constitute as an Awning? As I see people on the sites, that I go to with so many attachable awnings and blow up thingies attached to their van, I can well understand that they would be called Awnings . But a pullout shade, with no sides ? Is this also an awning that needs to be paid for please ?

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Also, is there an Airfryer, that can be used in a motorhome with an inverter for 1000 volts on board. I haven't used my own oven for over 3 years since having my airfryer, and would love to use one suitable for a motorhome, without tripping the whole site ! haha
 
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sweet caroline said:
Also, is there an Airfryer, that can be used in a motorhome with an inverter for 1000 volts on board. I haven't used my own oven for over 3 years since having my airfryer, and would love to use one suitable for a motorhome, without tripping the whole site ! haha
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Plenty of small airfryers are 900w
 
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sweet caroline said:
Also, is there an Airfryer, that can be used in a motorhome with an inverter for 1000 volts on board.
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The 1000 figure is WATTS, not volts. Just to be clear, you said you are new to m/homes so do you have an inverter and if so what is it rated at? That is to say are you referring to an air fryer that's on board or both an fryer and an inverter?
 
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sweet caroline said:
Also, is there an Airfryer, that can be used in a motorhome with an inverter for 1000 volts on board. I haven't used my own oven for over 3 years since having my airfryer, and would love to use one suitable for a motorhome, without tripping the whole site ! haha
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1000v, that'll sizzle your bangers for you, sorry, no sensible answer for you, but others will have.
Mike.
 
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sweet caroline said:
Also, is there an Airfryer, that can be used in a motorhome with an inverter for 1000 volts on board. I haven't used my own oven for over 3 years since having my airfryer, and would love to use one suitable for a motorhome, without tripping the whole site ! haha
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A small airfryer might be run from a 1000W inverter but you will need a lot of battery capacity, and ideally lithium. Without doing the maths something like 400Ah would be a minimum requirement I would think and then of course you will need the solar panels or a B2B to replenish them afterwards.

I fear unless you want to spend a lot of money it's a non-starter but nothing wrong with packing an airfryer for when you are on EHU.
 
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A small airfryer might be run from a 1000W inverter but you will need a lot of battery capacity, and ideally lithium. Without doing the maths something like 400Ah would be a minimum requirement I would think and then of course you will need the solar panels or a B2B to replenish them afterwards.

I fear unless you want to spend a lot of money it's a non-starter but nothing wrong with packing an airfryer for when you are on EHU.
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I use a 1200W airfryer from a 2000W inverter and 2x 96ah AGM batteries. I can run it for around an hour and will still have 80% battery power left. In the afternoon sun, the 235W solar panel recuperates the batteries to 100%.

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I use a 1200W airfryer from a 2000W inverter and 2x 96ah AGM batteries. I can run it for around an hour and will still have 80% battery power left. In the afternoon sun, the 235W solar panel recuperates the batteries to 100%.
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Interesting, 1200W is in roughly 100 amps depending on voltages and inverter efficiency and at that sort of drain your 95Ah batteries won't have anything like that capacity. The rating is usually based on discharging over a 20 hour period. Capacity drops off as the rate of discharge increases.

I can only think your airfryer doesn't heat continually, but clicks in every now and again to maintain the temperature. I assumed they would do that but I didn't know what the duty cycle was, yours must only be heating for about 10% of the time.

Thanks for describing your experience, it surprises me but life is full of those. :)
 
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We use this, and are very happy with it:

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It is 900w, and we use it with a 1500w inverter.
 
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Interesting, 1200W is in roughly 100 amps depending on voltages and inverter efficiency and at that sort of drain your 95Ah batteries won't have anything like that capacity. The rating is usually based on discharging over a 20 hour period. Capacity drops off as the rate of discharge increases.

I can only think your airfryer doesn't heat continually, but clicks in every now and again to maintain the temperature. I assumed they would do that but I didn't know what the duty cycle was, yours must only be heating for about 10% of the time.

Thanks for describing your experience, it surprises me but life is full of those. :)
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Yes I believe the initial surge can be the 1200W stated on the label but after it reaches temperature (which it does very quickly due to it's reduced size), to maintain it, it obviously uses a lot less.
 
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Interesting, 1200W is in roughly 100 amps depending on voltages and inverter efficiency and at that sort of drain your 95Ah batteries won't have anything like that capacity. The rating is usually based on discharging over a 20 hour period. Capacity drops off as the rate of discharge increases.

I can only think your airfryer doesn't heat continually, but clicks in every now and again to maintain the temperature. I assumed they would do that but I didn't know what the duty cycle was, yours must only be heating for about 10% of the time.

Thanks for describing your experience, it surprises me but life is full of those. :)
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I think you must be unaware that https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/members/barriesimpson.103439/ lives permanently in spain
 
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How do people post names of people on here?
 
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The 1000 figure is WATTS, not volts. Just to be clear, you said you are new to m/homes so do you have an inverter and if so what is it rated at? That is to say are you referring to an air fryer that's on board or both an fryer and an inverter?
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inverter is 1000 watts, so looked on line for the best airfryer, for motorhome and kat the wanderer pointed me into the right direction thanks, much better than an oven
 
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sweet caroline - a tip re the awning/sunshade situation.

Although a lot of on line booking sites ask the Awning question, it’s not always chargeable as an extra.

We have a wind out sunshade, but if there is no charge for awning I always select the Yes response as the pitches can be bigger and possibly there won’t be enough room to wind out the sunshade if you are allocated a non awning pitch.

If it’s chargeable as extra I just take my chances!
 
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sweet caroline said:
inverter is 1000 watts, so looked on line for the best airfryer, for motorhome and kat the wanderer pointed me into the right direction thanks, much better than an oven
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Inverter needs to be Pure Sine Wave as air fryers have electronics in then without a decent quality pure sine inverter you are likely to fry the electronics in it.akso to run a 900 watt air fryer you need 400 ah of lead batteries.
 
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Barriesimpson said:
I use a 1200W airfryer from a 2000W inverter and 2x 96ah AGM batteries. I can run it for around an hour and will still have 80% battery power left. In the afternoon sun, the 235W solar panel recuperates the batteries to 100%.
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That's a good way of frying your batteries. You should never discharge lead batteries at more than the C5 rate which for your batteries is 38 amps. You are drawing approx 110 amps your batteries won't last long you really need to fit another 3 batteries or change to Lithium.
 
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sweet caroline what leisure battery/batteries do you have ?
I personally wouldn't run a 900 watt air fryer from a 1,000 watt inverter as the inverter will be running at 90% capacity, probably a little more as the 900 watt rating is heating power.
It doesn't include the power for the air fryer fan, which on mine is 35 watts and any start up surge.
Basically if your battery will handle the draw the inverter will be running at max.
 
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