Electric Heater Question

Captain Skippy wrote:
Tomorrow I'm trading my 2013 Apex 268 for a 2014 Arctic Fox 25p. I'm so stoked. Wife and I want to do winter camping. The question is I'm looking at supplementing the regular heat with an electric heater. It is 1500 watts and pulls 12.5 amps. Most OD the lights in the Fox are LED. Will the heater overload the inverter? I'm in South Carolina so we're talki about temps in the low to mid 20's. Hopefully no colder.
Thanks.

Perhaps you need to give a few more details..

Is the boondocking (IE no commercial power)?

If boondocking running 1500W heater from battery (IE an INVERTER which takes 12V battery and gives output of 120V AC) you will need a considerable battery bank and an inverter which has at least 1500W capacity.

The big limitation is battery capacity and then you must recharge the batteries as soon as possible or risk damaging them (IE they lose capacity when partially or fully discharged and left in that state for any length of time).

If you have shore power then you simply use an extension cord run out to the campground power box to run the heater from..