Our goal: travel trailer turned tiny home!
Hey everyone! Just stumbled upon these forums looking for websites to aid in my search for the right type of travel trailer for what me & my husband are looking to turn into our tiny home. I don't ...
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toedtoes wrote:
In her second post, the OP mentioned having a generator as back up for the solar. However, I think for a PA winter, that might get expensive trying to heat the trailer with gas or diesel. Especially with three dragons to be concerned about.
How are you going to ensure the heat doesn't go out during the day when you're at work?
For reference, on our boat (yeah little different but similar situation), our 2400w Yamaha could run the 12k btu heat but below around 25F, it would get a degree colder inside for each degree colder it got outside even with the heat going continuous full blast. That would probably be burning about 5 gal/day (we were in the south so it was only an occasional day not ongoing).
And yeah, if you were gone, nothing to say it won't konk out or run out of go juice.
