Newbie question about dry camping

cwaweeks wrote:
And I will be camping the hottest weekend of the summer, so not much relief from a breeze in 110 degrees.

That is not going to be pleasant.

CWA the lifan you pointed to should work, but the unit, at 1000 watts will be running full throttle just to charge your battery. At the 60 db noise level it claims it would be quite noticeable, the Harbor freight tailgater isn't much noisier and only cost $90, but it is not an inverter unit. It should work just as well for charging your battery, but can be a little unstable to run electronics directly from it. If you are going to look at an inverter genny, Home depot is also selling this one,,,,
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Champion-Power-Equipment-1-700-Watt-Gasoline-Powered-Recoil-Start-Portable-Generator-73536i/203791700

These are double the capability of the little lifan, half the noise, and from a brand known to provide decent service.

One other option I will point out, add a second battery to your camper so you have two in parallel, and charge them daily by connecting your tow vehicle with jumper cables and running the engine for an hour or so daily.

Running your cpap by 12 volts has already been mentioned so any of these should handle it.

Running a generator at night is not allowed. We could charge phones in the car. I know nothing about generators. Would something like this work for charging the battery during the day?

https://www.homedepot.com/p/LIFAN-Energy-Storm-1-000-Watt-53cc-Gasoline-Powered-Inverter-Generator-with-CARB-ESI1000I-CA/202196140

You have to have some way to charge the battery. Even with everything running straight from 12v, that's a big power draw. You can run your truck and recharge the battery that way, but a generator is a lot more efficient.

Not without an inverter. Find a way to get a generator or inverter and another way to chargthe battery

This is what I feared. And I will be camping the hottest weekend of the summer, so not much relief from a breeze in 110 degrees. Will look into other options. Thanks!

The battery is part of a 12V DC system, for lights and the water pump (if you have one) and the furnace (if you have one) and fridge control board (if...) so forth. It doesn't directly power 120V outlets.

You can get an inverter to power 120V devices from a 12V battery, but you have a limited amount of power available before the battery needs to be recharged and using much 120V power will deplete that in relatively short order.

Many CPAP machines are 12V and have an external power brick to turn 120V into 12V. If yours is like that, you can get a cord to run it directly from the battery. That would be more efficient, but it can still be a relatively high user of power and several nights without recharging would probably be impossible. Likewise there are 12V phone chargers (very easy to come by)--and they don't use much power--and 12V fans available.

With a pop-up, you should be able to make pretty good use of any available natural breeze.

Electrical outlets don't run from a battery. You will need some way to recharge. Get a Tailgater from Harbor Freight. On sale now for $89.