Some Casita Trailer Modifications

[Sunnyfalls]

Originally Posted by John in Santa Cruz

ugh, i hate generators when camping, I don't care how quiet they are. ah well.

my kid runs a heat pump system off his 600 AH of lithium and 800 watts of solar in his camper, seems to do ok, but his camper is a custom built aluminum cab-over on a F550 frame. no propane at all, but he does have a diesel furnace for cold winter nights, since the truck is already a diesel.

We dislike gasoline generators and anything that uses diesel because of the awful smelling exhaust. Propane generators don't have that issue, propane never goes bad, propane doesn't gum up generator fuel systems and since we always need to source and use propane anyhow when dry camping via filling our Casita OEM propane tanks, propane isn't inconvenient to source and store like gasoline. And fortunately, given how and where we mostly dry camp, we don't often even need air conditioning so we don't often even need to take or use our propane generator either.

We only need our 100AH LIFEPO4 battery, our 200 Watt solar panels and our 3000 Wattt Inverter to power everything we use when doing long duration dry camping...really glamping. We use a 120VAC 20A independent circuit, which can be fed from either Inverter Power, Shore Power or turned OFF and used to power our coffee maker, hair dryer, microwave oven, toaster oven, 2-slice toaster, toilet heated bidet seat and vacuum cleaner. We will sometimes even use our Inverter to power this independent 2400 Watt circuit when we also have 12,000 Watts of 120/240VAC Shore Power for a total of 14,400 Watts given that we have a 3500 240VAC Watt Induction cooktop, electric 6500 Watt 240VAC/propane tankless water heater, 1500 Watt 120VAC electric space heater and operate our electric/propane refrigerator on 120VAC too.

Gayle & Bob
"Los Gatos Casita"

[Cabosman]

I do like your dual setup - boondocking and Glamping

What brand/model is your tankless water heater and would you recommend it?

Thanks

[Sunnyfalls]

Originally Posted by Cabosman

I do like your dual setup - boondocking and Glamping

What brand/model is your tankless water heater and would you recommend it?

Thanks

Thanks!

It is from a German company that we helped design and that we and others are currently testing. We are under a NDA so can't say much more than what was already in our writeup when we first got involved with this project that may be found by Googling our trailer name. But Yes, we love how it performs, saves us water and freeze protects our plumbing and potable water tank.

Gayle & Bob
"Los Gatos Casita"