May be a dumb question for this board, but I figured someone here would have some good advice. I have an older, but nice, camper I'm wanting to leave at my club next season. None of the amenities will need to be used other than minimal lights and an outlet or two for a heater or phone charger. What's out there that would give me the juice I need? Not wanting or needing a generator to run the whole unit with.
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Propane lantern and heater … your vehicle for the charger
As cheaply priced as the Northern Tool powerhorse 2300 watt inverter that's a great setup. I use one for my pop up camper. Rubs heat, lights, and outlets just fine. Now if I need to use the microwave. I turn off the lights and heater or it will trip the breaker. They don't hardly weigh anything and in ecomode you don't hear them run.
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This !!!
What type of heater?
Stalkhunter
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I use a 3500 watt inverter generator for mine. It is a predator from Harbor freight and is capable of being converted to propane as well.
Stalkhunter
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Hasn't gone up much and price. Getting another one it will all me to run everything in my camper.
I've got a champion 2500 portable generator you can carry like a suitcase that I have in case I need to run the microwave which is rare. A buddy put a deep cycle battery in and wired 2 LED lights to it that work great. At the beginning of the year I plug it in to the generator and let it run an hour or so just to charge the battery back up and it will last all year and then some. I use a propane buddy heater to heat it but typically don't run it unless it gets below around 35 degrees. I charge my phone on a portable battery pack that's not much bigger than the phone itself.
Definitely go with an inverter generator. So much more quiet than a regular one. ALSO...I suggest a dual fuel - one that runs on propane. So much easier to store propane and you don't have to worry about gas going bad in your generator.
My camper had a propane heater. The generator only had to run the fan. I used a Honda 2200i and it would run my entire camper as long as I didn't run the microwave and air conditioner at the same time. I bought the Honda years ago because I knew it would be trouble free and quiet. I hate a loud generator. Especially on the property I'm hunting.
ImThere
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Harbor freight solar panels and a couple of deep cycle batteries?
