V2L function to power the house?

[Peterboat]

Our 30ft Winnie, towing the MG4 on a trailer, comes in at 12.5 tonne. The V10 6.8ltr 20 valve Ford engine goes great, but it is a tad thirsty, 2km/ltr thirsty.
200ltr petrol is good for between 400kms and 500kms, depends on hills, wind direction and the weight of my right foot ..... there is a certain amount of enjoyment pulling up past a B double in the short overtaking lanes they have around here. The price for that much fun was $400 for 200ltrs of petrol (the cheap stuff) that went up to $600, starts to hurt when the trip is 1600kms each way as the crow flies, so it wouldn't take all that long to recover the cost of 700kWh of battery storage.
Already have the hybrid set up, a Lexus GS 450h, a petrol V6 that develops around 300hp and the L112 2sp 2 motor transmission can develop over 270hp and incredible torque using the inverter board developed by Damien Maguire .... all fed into the near unbreakable Ford 4 sp heavy vehicle auto, I'm hoping this will be the motorhome till the end of my days travelling. ....
Solar is good and cheap over this side, so fuel sort of comes down from the sky ....

T1 Terry

I have converted lots of those V10 tritone to LPG over the years, OMVL did a dedicated kit for them which made it easier as it was all plugged up. Also had petrol additions so power was exactly the same on hard acceleration, same engine in other Ford stuff so it was a regular conversion once it gets around how good it was

 

[Rolfe]

I think I should avoid using that extra extension lead with a high load thing like the heater. It was a nice idea, but it's not necessary and it's just being parsimonious. It's covering for a particular issue right now, which is the oil supply, which I fervently hope won't be an issue when summer ends.

The planned use of VtL in the house would be during a prolonged power cut where the home battery only had enough to run the central heating boiler, and it would be confined to a table lamp, the TV, the computer, the house phone, and the wifi router. I need to add that up, but I don't think it's a heavy load.

When I did use a couple of higher-load appliances on it (kettle and microwave) I didn't use the extension lead, and it was only for a few minutes.

 

[T1 Terry]

I have converted lots of those V10 tritone to LPG over the years, OMVL did a dedicated kit for them which made it easier as it was all plugged up. Also had petrol additions so power was exactly the same on hard acceleration, same engine in other Ford stuff so it was a regular conversion once it gets around how good it was

This one left the Winnebago Australia throw together shed (built is not a word that should be associated with one of these things) as a dual fuel vehicle back in 2001. It runs fine on LPG, it's just hard to find anyone actually still carrying it at fuel stations now.
I actually have my LPG installers ticket, and advanced tuning additional TAFE accreditation, so I've also remapped an advance curve to suit LPG, so switching between the fuels, also switches to a different spark advance map ......
If I thought LPG would continue to be available, I'd build a liquid injection system for it as well, but it has already been made clear, LPG is being phased out as an alternate fuel in Australia .......

Unfortunate, because they really do go well, that exhaust note as they wind up with the split phase crank, it sounds like a high end Italian sports car when on full song ......

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

The extension cord I made for my V2L to power our motorhome with up to the 7kw available, uses 5mm sq conductors and a 2.5mm sq earth cable, 10 mtrs long.
The plugs are Australian 3 pin pattern, but very high current rated. The same pattern as the 20 amp plugs and sockets, just the flat pins are twice as thick .... supposed to be rated at 50 amps, but the cable will never see more than 32 amps so sort of overbuilt, but better than under doing it .....
I made cheater cables for it so I could power my mig welder, it only requires 15 amps, but the voltage drop over 10 mtrs of cable was affecting the weld penetration, the over size cable seems to have sorted that problem .....

T1 Terry

 

[Everest]

voltage drop is so often overlooked as being a design factor.

 

[Peterboat]

This one left the Winnebago Australia throw together shed (built is not a word that should be associated with one of these things) as a dual fuel vehicle back in 2001. It runs fine on LPG, it's just hard to find anyone actually still carrying it at fuel stations now.
I actually have my LPG installers ticket, and advanced tuning additional TAFE accreditation, so I've also remapped an advance curve to suit LPG, so switching between the fuels, also switches to a different spark advance map ......
If I thought LPG would continue to be available, I'd build a liquid injection system for it as well, but it has already been made clear, LPG is being phased out as an alternate fuel in Australia .......

Unfortunate, because they really do go well, that exhaust note as they wind up with the split phase crank, it sounds like a high end Italian sports car when on full song ......

T1 Terry

It's always been fueling that was an issue on big V8s, I had a Shelby mustang 5.4 supercharged I fitted 2 vaporisers to it and petrol additions, it could just about cope but it was 660 hp so was working hard. Direct injection always failed Ford had a go as well and that didn't do much better. I settled on OMVL as the Engineer was on my doorstep and he carried loads of spares, this was important as we did Jaguars and they had issues with some ECUs. I have gone EV because LPG has literally folded over here to