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:
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.
That's reasonable and a lot different than implying something is wrong with manufacturers using forced air heat.
I used forced air heat a week without hookups or generator running to charge batteries. I'm sure I could have gone longer. Will that work for you, from what you said, no. We drove some during the day, btw.
Of course, there are disadvantages of radiant heat as well. I was just curious what you were suggesting. None of those methods heat a basement, for instance without creating your own method to force air in that area. They are relativity slow to heat a large space.
Our AF1150's heated basement is nothing more than a small computer type fan that circulates air through the basement. There is no ducting to the basement. If the living space is warm the basement won't freeze. The fan motor on our forced air furnace pulls about 8 amps. That's a pretty good draw. Combine with loss of battery efficiency due to cold and never wanting to deplete battery below 50% means that a 200 Ah bank may only be good for 60-70 AH. Driving the truck doesn't fully charge a battery bank. Hard on batteries to float around near (or below) 50%.
With our recently added solar and battery upgrades we could easily run the forced air furnace all we want but it's coming out. it is a wasted space, it's inefficient, noisy. The intermittent blasts of hot air at night wakes me up going from cold to hot.
OP can look up ventless indoor propane heaters, do their own research. They work great for us.
