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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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theoldwizard1
Explorer II
Sep 25, 2020
Ed_Gee wrote:
Another view on this subject -- you can have all the batteries and all the solar panels possible but you can't get more daytime energy than the sun will provide.....even assuming ideal conditions....which are rare....

If you are going to go all electric and try to boondock you need two backup items; portable propane heater (several already mentioned) and a generator !

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