Furnace fan and battery drain
When we dry camp in cooler weather, the furnace fan is our biggest drain on the batteries. Short of going without heat, how do you keep the furnace fan from depleting the batteries below 50 percen...
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I spent most of my work life camped out because of the distance from town in the mountains.We all usually camped in the same spot or area and the furnace was a battery eater for sure..The forced air furnaces in the older RV's shined over the modern fan forced in battery life..
For a fix some brought extra batteries and changed them out as needed,others used jumper cables and charged the RV through there truck and of course there were a lot of generators and stand alone chargers for quicker charging..
The old forced air furnace without a fan was close to the catalytic heaters in battery longevity.
Solar did know good under the canopy of tree's and was really useless in the winter months in the mountains of Idaho.
For a fix some brought extra batteries and changed them out as needed,others used jumper cables and charged the RV through there truck and of course there were a lot of generators and stand alone chargers for quicker charging..
The old forced air furnace without a fan was close to the catalytic heaters in battery longevity.
Solar did know good under the canopy of tree's and was really useless in the winter months in the mountains of Idaho.
