Switching from 12 volt to 6 volt batteries
After our third time out dry camping with our new travel trailer, we started running into battery bank issues. Our first two times out, we had no issues at all with running down our battery bank overn...
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Huntindog wrote:
Do you think those fans would do as good a job circulating heated air thru the underbelly as the furnace fan?
I agree on not using a non vented heater... Even when not planning to sleep. Sometimes those heaters can make one sleepy.
I do use the generator though. It is 75' away, usually behind a tree/fallen log etc.
Hi Huntindog,
All I can tell you is they were effective in my class C at -37 C (-34 f).
I was having freeze ups while driving--the furnace was on, but the heat from the cab prevented it from cycling. They do not move nearly as much air as the furnace fan. I've not had a freeze up since 2010.
By unvented heating device, I have, on occasion, when street parking where I was in a convention all day long, run the burners on the stove top at low levels. It was in Calgary, and I had no access to shore power. I did leave the furnace active, but at the lowest possible setting. There was a tremendous blizzard. I would return "home", start the generator, turn up the furnace, turn on electric heaters and run the stove burners flat out. After 2 hours I'd make my supper. Then I'd drive to the nearest gas station, refill the generator, and refill the propane tank. As soon as I was finished fueling, I'd restart the generator. Then back on the streets for another night. I had a Kipor 3000 Ti inverter generator, with electric start. About 10 pm, I'd stop the generator, refuel it, turn on my smallest inverter, and use a heating pad in the bed.
I had an analog cell phone and a dial up isp with a toll free number. The laptop was connect to the cell phone by a device that provided a dial tone. My connection speed was 1/4 regular dial up--but it was good enough to do email--and even streaming audio from the BBC. Web sites were not nearly so data intensive in those days. The cell phone had unlimited minutes after 6 p.m.
75 feet would make it safe to run a generator. Unfortunately, after having one stolen, my generator is bolted in place, and protected by a steel cage. I know it would only slow someone down.
