Yosemite, battery, propane, heating, March
Hello everyone and thanks for your time and answers in advance. My wife, daughter and I have a five day trip scheduled to Yosemite the last week in March. We are new to RVing (long time tent cam...
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Congrats on asking! As a tent camper you know and stated the obvious - warmer clothing.
Furnaces take a lot of battery power and of course propane. Sure you can have more batteries and propane. Even drive to where you can run the gen but who wants to do that?
Learn about the limitations - for example fully recharging batteries (100% SOC) requires many many hours of driving/gen time. So you're resigned to a 50-80% SOC recharge. ie You start the night at up to 20% discharged.
Various heaters? Sure they work. But I have a personal adversion to running anything potentially deadly to me while I'm sleeping.
Some have used sleeping blankets but likely require more battery power than you have.
My advice: Take warm clothing, go and learn more about various options. It's been many years since we've been in Yosemite - I'm envious.
Furnaces take a lot of battery power and of course propane. Sure you can have more batteries and propane. Even drive to where you can run the gen but who wants to do that?
Learn about the limitations - for example fully recharging batteries (100% SOC) requires many many hours of driving/gen time. So you're resigned to a 50-80% SOC recharge. ie You start the night at up to 20% discharged.
Various heaters? Sure they work. But I have a personal adversion to running anything potentially deadly to me while I'm sleeping.
Some have used sleeping blankets but likely require more battery power than you have.
My advice: Take warm clothing, go and learn more about various options. It's been many years since we've been in Yosemite - I'm envious.
