Furnace and battery
We have a 5 year old 30' Rockwood trailer that we often use dry camping at a local county park that can get cold at night. We have two 6 volt batteries and a solar charger. Before we leave home I ha...
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MrWizard wrote:
my Furance draws approx 6amps when running, i have a good monitor connected to my batteries, depending on ambient temp, furnace run time etc.. i use 20-40 amphrs per night
a 50% run time cycle from 8pm to 8am , 6 hrs of running would equal 36ampHrs
you have battery and/or wiring connection problems
200+ ampHr of deep cycle golf cart batteries should be about to lights and furnace for at least one night and maybe 'two'
poor dirty loose connections will lead too battery problems
Your data about equals what I have found - except that our smaller Class C requires only about a 33% or less run time per cycle.
