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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pianotuna wrote:
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.
I had a Propane generator in my truck camper and it run thru a small tank in a day trying to keep my small truck camper cool, it was expensive and hard to find. I was real low o propane one time and probably wasted an hour driving to a fill station and when I got there it was closed. Another time I waited more than 1/2 hour to get my tank filled and I eventually gave up and drove away without getting it
