Electric fireplace draw
How much electricity do these electric fireplaces draw and when boondocking, how big a genset would it require? Yes I realize you'll be burning the furnace too but I'm interested in the draw on these things.
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- You'll need to look up the specs for the specific fireplace you have, but the 1500 watts mentioned matches the manual for mine. That's pretty much pushing the limits on a 2000 watt inverter generator and would leave you very little capacity to run anything else at the same time.
While I often use my electric fireplace for heat when hooked up to shore power, I never use it while boondocking which I do a lot of in the cold shoulder seasons. I might use the fake fire for ambiance without turning the heater portion of the fireplace on, but can't see where I would want to fire up the generator for heat when I can just turn on the furnace. To run the electric heat and charge my batteries, I would need to parallel both of my champion 2000 watt generators as 1 of them wouldn't be up to the task. - The ones I am familiar with have a max of 1500 Watt to the heater so probably about 1700 watts
