? On dry camping for 2 nights propane use?
Well we are goin to do some dry camping tomorrow for the end of the season last camp before storage. So I have 2 20 gal propane tanks .right now 1 tank is about a quarter filled and the other i under ...
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You need more fuel and a bigger battery (or two):
The furnace burns one pound of fuel for every hour of flame time. Don't measure this to the minute but it's a good planning number! If you have 15 pounds of LP you get 15 hours of heat. When the fuel runs out your stove, water heater and refrigerator stop working too.
A bigger problem is the furnace draws 4 amps so those same 15 hours of flame time will consume 60 amp-hours of power from your battery. Problem here is the typical "80 amp-hour" Group 24 battery only has about 55 useful amp-hours before the voltage drops too low to run more than a dim light or two.
Two full 20 pound LP cylinders is recommended but without enough battery power you'll not be able to run the furnace very long.
To handle this event I have a pair of full 20 pound LP cylinders and a pair of Trojan T125 batteries on the trailer with at least 200 useful amp-hours of power.
-- Chuck
The furnace burns one pound of fuel for every hour of flame time. Don't measure this to the minute but it's a good planning number! If you have 15 pounds of LP you get 15 hours of heat. When the fuel runs out your stove, water heater and refrigerator stop working too.
A bigger problem is the furnace draws 4 amps so those same 15 hours of flame time will consume 60 amp-hours of power from your battery. Problem here is the typical "80 amp-hour" Group 24 battery only has about 55 useful amp-hours before the voltage drops too low to run more than a dim light or two.
Two full 20 pound LP cylinders is recommended but without enough battery power you'll not be able to run the furnace very long.
To handle this event I have a pair of full 20 pound LP cylinders and a pair of Trojan T125 batteries on the trailer with at least 200 useful amp-hours of power.
-- Chuck
