RV Furance on Predator 3200 (4000)?
Help all. I have a 3200 (4000) Predator generator at home. I want to be able to run the Cedar Creek furnace on the generator when the shore power goes out. Is this possible? What is the best way t...
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ken burke wrote:mkirsch wrote:ken burke wrote:
I am not sure what you mean by "trading propane consumption for much longer gen run time".
If you use the RV furnace, you would not have to run the generator AT ALL during a power outage for heat. It would run off the battery, and use propane.
Okay. Thanks . . . . . I didn't know that.
ken
Sorry, that is not quite true. While the furnace does run off 12 VDC, the size of your battery bank will dictate how many hours of run time you will have before the batteries are discharged. Ideally, you don't want to discharge below 50% for long battery life. And, unless you have a very large solar system and a lot of sun, you WILL be running your generator to power your converter to recharge the batteries.
No idea what converter you have or its amp rating and whether it is smart (for faster charging of deeply discharged batteries). That as well as how many amp-hrs you used from the batteries will determine generator run time. But as already discusses generator run time will be significantly less than using an electric space heater which would require the generator to be running 100% of the time you want to use the electric space heater.
