Eizenjin91
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Hello, I am about to pull the trigger on a Ram 5500 C&C 84” CA with dual 370 amp alternators. I will be putting a 12.5’ (interior) total composites box with no cabover on the back with 45 degree front and sides. The Ram C&C is going to be the 6.4 petrol engine. I would have chosen the Ford F-550 but they won’t do dual fuel tanks with petrol only diesel so that’s out as it’s almost impossible to find or have petrol aux tanks made. I have had 5 ram diesel based platforms from flatbed FWC’s to custom full body campers. I love the Cummins and ease of everything but am doing petrol because of lack of ULSD and lack of DEF availability overseas specifically Northern Africa and Siberia and the stans. The first trip once this rig is done will be to ship to Norway and do the Scandinavian countries over in to Russia then Mongolia and the Stans and finish out in Vladivostok. I’ve had great luck running deleted diesel trucks in the last but even with deleting they don’t like to run on crap diesel that I will have access to and no DEF accessibility for an intact truck. I have run hundreds of days with Webasto diesel heaters down to -70 and performed flawlessly.
That leaves me to the issue with this build: petrol Espar or electric heater? I will be running Three CG3 BattleBorn (270AH each) with solar and Victon brain/DC-DC chargers. I have a buddy with a van who runs a Pali Bilgesafe 400W heater in his sprinter. I figure I would need at least two of those for the size of this interior and winter temps of -20 to -40. My first thought is to run a petrol espar as it would plumb right in to the main tank with 74 gallons of petrol and be efficient. However, if I could not utilize my fuel source and run electric heat that would be amazing and limit me even less. However I have no experience with electric heaters in expedition rigs. I would love to have a Cummins with diesel webasto but the limitations outweigh it. Anyone have experience with electric heaters and their functionality?
TLDR; petrol or electric heat in an expedition rig?
That leaves me to the issue with this build: petrol Espar or electric heater? I will be running Three CG3 BattleBorn (270AH each) with solar and Victon brain/DC-DC chargers. I have a buddy with a van who runs a Pali Bilgesafe 400W heater in his sprinter. I figure I would need at least two of those for the size of this interior and winter temps of -20 to -40. My first thought is to run a petrol espar as it would plumb right in to the main tank with 74 gallons of petrol and be efficient. However, if I could not utilize my fuel source and run electric heat that would be amazing and limit me even less. However I have no experience with electric heaters in expedition rigs. I would love to have a Cummins with diesel webasto but the limitations outweigh it. Anyone have experience with electric heaters and their functionality?
TLDR; petrol or electric heat in an expedition rig?