nico
Advanced Member
So I am learning the nuances of my new grandby flatbed. I spent two nights in the desert recently with low temps and my heater was real finicky. I did not realize how much power the heater fan draws and even though my batteries were at 12.5 ish volts, i could not get the heater to work and my kids were freezing. I had to trouble shoot everything before realizing it was a power issue and had to run the truck intermittenly for the rest of the trip which was kinda annoying. SO moving forward i am trying to determine what this system needs (at least in the winter time) to have enough power that I dont have to run my truck constantly to charge up the batteries. I am currently running the dual lead acid batteries with a 160 watt solar panel. I am open to adding another panel but im not sure this will do the trick in the winter time. I imigine the 160 watt panel will be adequate in the summer (albeit we probably wont need the heater in the summer/fall). i had another camper owner tell my to jsut get a small heater such as the mr buddy heaters but that seems kinda dangerous to run in the camper if it fell over or something. maybe that could be an emergency measure but again I can always run the truck for 20 minutes or so. Open to suggestions.