Heat and cool an RV off Solar only

42OhmsPA said:

mounted mine on some 2x4 on edge and there is room for the exhaust to clear the floor

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Sooooo… what does the installation instructions say for clearance to combustible surfaces?

A 2x4 is 3-1/2” and typical ’insulated’ combustion vents call for 2” of clearance. So that ~900*F to 1200*F uninsulated exhaust is nowhere enough clears in my head.

12VoltInstalls said:

Sooooo… what does the installation instructions say for clearance to combustible surfaces?

A 2x4 is 3-1/2” and typical ’insulated’ combustion vents call for 2” of clearance. So that ~900*F to 1200*F uninsulated exhaust is nowhere enough clears in my head.

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? at the manual.
I'm not at all worried about the exhaust near the wood, if I'm worried about anything it's the proximity of the fuel line to the exhaust.
It ran all night and the garage is still standing with no signs of excess heat in the exhaust area.

You can see how it's mounted in an old photo below.

42OhmsPA said:

can see how it's mounted

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I don’t see the exhaust. Where does that vent?

12VoltInstalls said:

I don’t see the exhaust. Where does that vent?

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It vents under the garage door... Trial setup.

Has anyone purchased a home from Apoca Outpost? Or have you guys heard anything about this company? I’m look at an 8x20 home from them that comes fully OffGrid sustainable.Air to water collection system, 1600AH battery bank with 2 MPP all in one inverters and grey water filtration system.

Vafarmer said:

Apoca Outpost

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Never heard of them until now but holy crap that’s a lot of money.

Vafarmer said:

Has anyone purchased a home from Apoca Outpost? Or have you guys heard anything about this company? I’m look at an 8x20 home from them that comes fully OffGrid sustainable.Air to water collection system, 1600AH battery bank with 2 MPP all in one inverters and grey water filtration system.

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After browsing that site, I'm 99 percent certain the only reason those exist is for the prepper market and like most of those products, they are overrated, overpriced, and underperform.

sunshine_eggo said:

After browsing that site, I'm 99 percent certain the only reason those exist is for the prepper market and like most of those products, they are overrated, overpriced, and underperform.

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“grey water filtration system”
is what got my attention. Yuck.

And why have a bullet-proof box and then put glazings in it?

But water runs out of the ground around here so…

If I were going to do a 8x20 ‘home’ too heavy to move with red ryder wagon I ‘might’ do a shipping container but would probably rather opt for insulated concrete forms.
Or my ‘home’ right now is ~8’x24’ and is moveable with 2-5/16 ball on a pickup. Including all Solar of its various improvements and my reconstruction morphs to be more home-like and comfortably heatable is <$7.5k total, spread over almost 5 years and a couple thousand or more of that is the recent purchase of lithium batteries, SCCs, and ~1900W of panels.

No way I’d buy a value-added shipping container.

Apoca Outpost videos offer suggestions for products. He thinks Renogy and Ampere Time are good choices. His choice for an electric 4 wheeler is HiSun (budget line yet kind of expensive with some bad reviews).

We custom ordered (windows, man door, openings for propane, heating vent and water/electrical) a shipping container locally fabricated from a single-trip 20 foot container. We insulated it and installed a flat deck on top. There are better ways for less money.

They only use AGM batteries. They say agm are the best for solar!! That kinda lost me..

Have checked out their Solar packages? It just doesn’t add up