Lance 650 Battery Issues?
Hi everyone, Please forgive my lack of technical terms, I'm a young woman owning a truck camper for the first time and have been figuring out how an RV works for the past year, but I wanted to kno...
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jimh425 wrote:work2much wrote:
Not on my camper.
There isn't one solution for everyone. You didn't answer my question of what heat they should have instead.
There are many here that would rather not have a built-in generator standard. I'm assuming the manufacturers know that. There are any number of low price generators out there that are suitable to run a microwave if you wanted to or charge your batteries. I don't think the solution is to add $4000 generators to every camper just in case someone might use one.
Wait, first you say forced air works fine without hookups. Genset is a hook up.
There are plenty of heating options rather than requiring a high DC draw. Several manufacturers offer radiant heating systems. Many of us use them. A manufacturer like lance (or any of them) could certainly work with any number of heating manufacturers and provide a built in radiant UL listed safe system. Truck campers are small enough that they do not need high speed fans blasting air around. Waste of DC power. We keep a much larger camper warm with less than 5k BTU in the snow. A 18K BTU heater is an overkill. These furnaces are very inefficient for both gas and DC.
This camper from what I can tell has nowhere to store a portable generator outside of the living space. It's not that it didn't come standard with a generator. It doesn't have a solution to carry one either. My point was that at a minimum she has to consider where she is going to safely secure a gas engine and fuel for it.
