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How Much Power Do I Use In A Day?

Aluminum Avion C11 truck camper driving down Shafer Road through Canyonlands National Park.

To know how large of an electrical system we need, we need to estimate our consumption. It's a task that seems simple at first, until you really sit down to think through all the variables. To know our power draw, we need to know what appliances we will be using but we are holding off on buying those high ticket items until we have our power system in place. So, this is a process of educated guesses and many rabbit holes. Many of the numbers in this post are derived from much more involved research broken out in other posts. But here is as close to a summary as I, the obsessive documenter, can manage.

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How Many Lights Do I Need In My RV?

Perched in a truck camper at Zapata Falls Campground, outside Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.

There are many units of measurement, metric and imperial, that I am very familiar with. But lumens is such an ephemeral value that shopping for lighting becomes very confusing. Lumens are a measurement of brightness. The more light a bulb puts out, the more lumens and power. As there is no "one size fits all" solution for lighting, there's a lot of math and a bit of art to determining what lighting is appropriate for a space.

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