Off-grid Winter RVing Question
Hi everyone, I have a 21 foot Toyota Dolphin that I'm planning to take on long ski weekends on Mt. Hood. Typical nighttime temps are in the low teens. Sometimes (thought rarely) single digits. Dayt...
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Huntindog wrote:
Most everyone trys to recharge the batteries in the daytime so that they will (hopefully) make it thru the night.
I do the opposite for cold weather camping. I run the generator all night, when the power is being used the most, and let the batteries carry me thru the , when the load on them is lighter.
I believe that the Mr Buddy type heaters require vents or windows to be opened..4000 BTU won't cut it with them open. Best to run the furnace. Use a dehumidifier and close the unit up tight.
That is a good option, and actually the best way to do it if possible, but I've run into two hurdles doing that.
First, most places I dry camp at either forbid, or at best frown on a generator running at night. This generally makes it not an option.
Second, in the quiet of a forest, a generator is loud. Even my relatively quiet Yamaha 3000 watt model running on variable speed at low RPMs to keep things charged is quite loud compared to the peace and quiet at night.
Everyone is different, and if it works, go for it, but in the dead stillness of a forest, I found it too noisy at night.
