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profdant139
Explorer II
Dec 06, 2017

Mini-catalytic heater for keeping tanks warm off-grid??

I really want to enclose my underbelly and do more cold weather camping. But unless I have a huge solar array (impossible on such a small trailer), I can't power the heat tapes to keep the tanks from...
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Dec 13, 2017
Hi GordonThree,

Nope I meant 700 btu's. In the worst of the winter I do move to a 600 watt heater--but for that to run all day long is hard on the battery bank--even when I have the thermostat set to 4 c (39 f).

GordonThree wrote:
Hopefully he meant 700 wat max?

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