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obiwancanoli
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Sep 25, 2020

Dry Camping - Heat with Propane, or electrically w/Inverter?

I've been doing a lot of research on beefing up my electrical system, and next week, should have had a Voltmeter, MPPT Controller, and 4 Battle Born Lithium batteries installed. Likely future addition...
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Itinerant1
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Sep 25, 2020
If you had enough solar during the day you could possibly offset the propane use but a night use the 12v furnace.

I have run my fireplace heater for stretches, turn the fridge over to electric from propane during the day but there is 1,280w solar on the roof.

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