Opinions Sought from Experienced Full-Timers
I have been thinking and studying up on what is required to go full-time. One obvious requirement is truck and trailer. Truck is simple (Ram dually with Cummins/Aisin fits the bill just fine); t...
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Hi,
Propane is much harder to come by than gas. It also has less energy per pound. It may be needed for doing cooking, space heating, and water heating. When you run out at 2 am it won't be fun for the rest of the night.
I tend to run my rv 100% electrically. When I was part time I rarely needed more watts of solar--but now that I'm full time I could use quadruple the wattage.
For many areas, generators can not be run constantly. For me that mandates having a good size battery bank (circa 1000 amp-hours), or a smaller bank (500 amp-hours) and lots of solar for recharging.
Propane is much harder to come by than gas. It also has less energy per pound. It may be needed for doing cooking, space heating, and water heating. When you run out at 2 am it won't be fun for the rest of the night.
I tend to run my rv 100% electrically. When I was part time I rarely needed more watts of solar--but now that I'm full time I could use quadruple the wattage.
For many areas, generators can not be run constantly. For me that mandates having a good size battery bank (circa 1000 amp-hours), or a smaller bank (500 amp-hours) and lots of solar for recharging.
