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pnichols
Feb 07, 2020Explorer II
Devocamper wrote:2oldman wrote:
What's wrong with using the furnace?
Drains your battery when boondocking without power
Probably the more important negative to using your RV furnace much when drycamping is it's consumption of valuable propane - which is also needed to keep the refrigerator cooling and the cooktop cooking. This is especially true considering that many small to moderate sized RVs these days only have skimpy little (IMHO) propane tanks. One can recharge coach batteries way easier than recharging the coach propane tank(s) when drycamping!
As for our exclusive use of our RV's furnace for coach warmth - we only drycamp continuously for few days here and there, so our 18 gallon propane tank and several ways of recharging our coach batteries make use of the furnace a comfortable and safe no-brainer.
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