ok, so roughly 1500 watt draw. Brief research tells me solar panels run 6 watts/sqft on a good day. No idea if that is correct but it's a starting point.

Surface area of the hood and CC roof is 5.5x8.5 which is 46.75 sqft which is 320 watts continuous (on a great day). Dump that into 2 deep cycle batteries and then figure you need to run the heater for 2 hours every morning and... um... I just reached the limit of my knowledge. Not sure where to go next.

I would imagine you could buy a 2000 watt inverter to run off the batteries.

OR!

charge the deep cycles off your special built souped up alternator with only rooftop panels as back up. (cuts down on tackiness since no one can see the roof anyway)


either way, those two batteries would fit in the space along the frame under the bed with the inverter in the cab on the rear wall to use the heat output to warm the interior.

Feel free to correct or augment this idea. I'm tempted to try it out.