Dakzuki wrote:
I thought we were the only crazy people. We are notorious for not running heat while dry camping in cool (like snow overnight at Yellowstone) temps.
Glad to meet you! Glad to hear it snows in Yellowstone - we were there in the summer once and nearly cooked. It seemed incredibly hot to us, used to the cool of 1000 miles further north. I understood why air conditioniers and generators to power them are a necessity.
I always wake up in the morning with enough power to run my coffeemaker and the hairdryer off the inverter, but I cring when the panel shows a 100 amp discharge!!!
I'm not a big coffee person so I can't see the whole picture, but from an energy point of view it seems strange to burn fuel to create heat, convert to electricity at 30% efficiency in a generator, store it in heavy batteries with more losses and then convert it back to heat to make coffee. Why not eliminate all the inefficiencies and make coffee on the propane stove?
Last summer we were camping at a remote lake where you could clearly hear the loons calling. This is near the start of the Alaska highway where there is little need for air conditioning. It was wonderfully quiet - except for the guy running a generator all day to keep the coffee hot.
