Dry camping with furnace on
I was dry camping this weekend and had to put the furnace on for the first time. I was worried that I would kill the battery if I ran the furnace overnight. I was right :(. The house battery was ...
Forum Discussion
wrybread wrote:
Its a really big job to upgrade your batteries to accommodate that blower. I have 4 Trojan T-105 batteries (the big expensive 6 volt batteries) and 600 watts of solar panels, and I *still* don't have enough power to reliably power my furnace blower over night. The things pulls 80 watts, which is just crazy for an RV. I'm surprised these are used in RVs at all.
My solution was to mount a Buddy heater on the wall....
80 watts is right, but something is definitely not right with your described setup if it isn't lasting through a night. EVen if the blower was on continuously all night, that's 7A * 8hr = 56Ah used. You have 400+ Ah available. BAck when we had a single Group 24 battery and 100 watt solar panel and used furnace every night, we never ran out of battery.
Agreed that catalytic heater basically eliminates electricity consumption for heating.
