We did it, we camped 4 nights in an entirely self-sufficient manner. In practice, this means we managed with the 40 gallons of fresh water in our tank, propane for cooktop and oven, water heater (normally we heat it electrically), and space heating (the blower motor runs off the 12V batteries).
No sewer hookup, so the wastewater was held in our grey and blackwater tanks until our next stop. Since we also had no “shore power” electrical hookup our main source of power was our battery bank.
Most of the lighting runs directly off the batteries. Our RV also has a “residential” refrigerator that runs on normal household electricity (120V), via an inverter. Of course, the batteries would not last 4 days, so they get recharged during the day by our rooftop solar panels.
Any shortfall is compensated for by a portable generator, which we ran only once a day. The longest was when it was cloudy all day, and we ran it for a bit more than 4 hours.
Claudette’s Two Cents.
I loved this dry camping experience more that I thought I would. I had to be creative with my menu, using the oven to both cook and heat up the place, use my iPad to work on, using an external keyboard and mouse (I can’t stand not feeling the keys to write. Call me old.)
The funniest thing about this was that our Starlink was down and had no internet – or so we thought. We’re literally in the middle of nowhere and we have cellphone reception, which means we could use our phones/iPad as hotspots. And so, I was able to work even if we didn’t have our Starlink or electricity.
You gotta love technology – when it works.