Hello. I'm looking for a very basic setup to power a small Chinese diesel RV/marine heater for a room in my house when the power goes out. The heater is 12v 8kw and I believe they pull about 12 amps on startup with the glow plug for about 5 min. After warm up, it uses about 1 amp to power the blower fan.
I found a 200W, 100A starter kit on ebay for 46 bucks. I have 2 1000CCA car batteries that are good enough. So the question is, how long would the heater run off the two...meh batteries and would the cheap ebay kit be enough to charge it up during the day? Not sure if I can post links here, all I searched for was "200W Solar Panel Kit" and it was like the 4th one down with 65 sold.
I'm looking forward to not freezing my butt off when the power goes out.
Thank you very much for your time.
I found a 200W, 100A starter kit on ebay for 46 bucks. I have 2 1000CCA car batteries that are good enough. So the question is, how long would the heater run off the two...meh batteries and would the cheap ebay kit be enough to charge it up during the day? Not sure if I can post links here, all I searched for was "200W Solar Panel Kit" and it was like the 4th one down with 65 sold.
I'm looking forward to not freezing my butt off when the power goes out.
Thank you very much for your time.