Diesel heater suggestion

[OkayestHNTR]

Yes, it's an either/or and I have mine wired directly to the battery with a 100w solar panel on it for the last week and it's a game changer. I've not seen it drop below 12.4v on cloudy day and usually it's at 12.7v when I check it. I'll never big-tent camp without this thing. It's only been getting to about 20 every night so I've run it on low (1.4) the entire time and the rent is almost too hot. Wife stayed in camp a couple days and heater ran for 3 days non-stop. So far since Saturday I've used about 2 gallons of diesel (plus came in with a full tank). Get you some cinder blocks or something to set it up on. The exhaust pipe gets HOT.

Was this on just the Jackery with solar charge or have you been using the gennie too? Earlier in the thread you mentioned using the gennie through the night. I'm hoping to run off just the Jackery and solar.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Was this on just the Jackery with solar charge or have you been using the gennie too? Earlier in the thread you mentioned using the gennie through the night. I'm hoping to run off just the Jackery and solar.

Neither, just my AGM camper battery and a 100 watt panel. We used the Jackery and another 100 watt panel for the freezer and all other camp power. I wasn't taking any chances with the heater lol.
We ran the gennie twice in 7 days to top off the Jackery when the skies had no sun but I didn't bring a charger for the heater battery that was 100% on solar.

 

[OkayestHNTR]

Picked up a Hcalory diesel heater. Can’t wait to give it a try next month.

 

[sndmn11]

My test run a few days ago killed the LiFePO sample battery I had around 4am; I think it got too cold. I ordered up the correct plugs to use DC with the Pecron 1000 self heating power station, and this is too easy.


It draws 40-60 watts for the first hour or so, and then settles into 6-15 watts. I wish I could make sense of all the lights on the LF Bro plateau controller, but they don't mean much to me. I wish it had fuel level.

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Fuel level would be really nice for sure. Looks like a nice rig, gonna be real toasty in there.

Looking at that controller you might be in thermostat mode, it's the left (not power) button. In thermostat mode the glow plug has to come on each time it kicks on and the heater goes on and off which uses more power.