Yeah you'd burn through propane pretty quickly.... I think the better $$ choice would be to invest in cold weather sleeping gear and a heater to warm up to in the morning. Maybe set the thermostat if you have one down near 50 just to keep it livable when you first wake up.

Depends on the year and model. Every one is different. Imo, the canvas wouldn't hold heat very well as regardless of how well water proofed it is it's still a fabric and will breath. I would think that you're going to need some serious blankets and maybe even an Electric Blanket/Bed warmer if not a propane heater...

I decided to replace our old bat wing with an Omnidirectional Powered TV Antenna. We call it the UFO, cause that's what it looks like lol.

Mounted it flush to the roof and haven't had an issue yet.

You're quite welcome . Safe travels buddy!

I've used an Engel cooler for the last 5 years and LOVE it! We started with a tiny 14qt and this year we bought a Portable 40qt tri voltage Engel Cooler. We love it, the wife loves it because she can fit a whole weeks food in that thing without an issue.

Granted it's just us two, but I'm sure a weeks food supply would be able to fit in there even with a little one or two. We also use it for hunting trips up to MI, it's never failed us and has been through a rain storm or three haha.

It also makes a great impromptu seat .

Basically what you're going to want to do is hook up a fan/blower in the cab of the truck and either have it sucking from a vent, or just the cab itself then blowing into the camper.

A Ducted heater will work, or just about any ducted fan that operates on 12volt. You just want the inlet of the ducted 12 volt fan in the cab and either near a vent, or attached directly to a vent, then the output routed to the truck camper.

By using the heater, once the weather goes south you'll be able to heat the camper up too.

No problem. I did a lot of research before I dropped money into solar power for our hunting cabin up in michigan and our TT. It pays to read before you jump feet first into something!

posting photos would help..

50 watts is not going to recharge your batteries. I would be willing to bet you use that much power, about 5 times over in a day, which means you have a deficit still.

I recommend a 250watt solar panel kit, at the very least. Ideally you want to have 1.4x as much power in panels as you plan on ever using. This way in cooler/cloudy weather you still have enough power to recharge everything back up in a day.

That's pretty creative, nicely done! I be that'll stand up to a bit more abuse than the oem factory door too.

How much does it weigh in finished?

Though I normally am in a camper I do have a boat and recently installed a Marinized 12v tv.

So recently I have recently upgraded from an old fishing boat to a new boat and in doing so I have gained about 350sqft of cabin space . That isn't deducting all of the space the benches and small stove take up. The room is roughly 10*6*6 so not a ton of space but it is enough to move around in and sleep. Recently I bought a cheap tv from Circuit city and well it died in about a week of normal use. I suspected it was to do with moisture and salt in the air, I did some searching and stumbled across Marinized tv's.

I didn't know much about the Marinized TV's, so I gave the customer support number a call and it turns out they are what the big ocean liners use in the're cabins! I ended up putting one 15" in my boat cabin and 1 22in on a custom mount that I made for my Tow behind camper. Its a tiny camper and the tv is mounted on an adjustable swivel facing the head of the bed on the ceiling (to save floor space)

Anywho, for resource sake I'll link for you guys\gals.
12volt marinized tv's