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obiwancanoli
Explorer
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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naturist
Nomad
Sep 25, 2020
400 AH is 4800 WH. The most common electric heaters of plugin sort are 1500 watts. Just one of them will exhaust your 4 LiFePO batteries in just over 3 hours. Add 8 more of those batteries to run that heater overnight.

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