Thread: electric heat?
View Single Post
Old 03-25-2014, 01:04 PM   #5
Pmedic4
Senior Member
 
Pmedic4's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Illinois
Posts: 581
About heating your RV

Look around for lots of other information regarding heating your RV. Small space heaters don't really do all that well. The power coming into your RV is probably all on one electrical circuit, so you could probably only have 1 1500 watt heater without tripping the breaker. Some are more fortunate, and they can have 2+ heaters, so it depends. Another negative part of space heaters(besides a fire risk), is that it doesn't heat the lower parts of your RV so your water lines may freeze.

You can buy a AC/Heat Pump combination unit to replace your AC, depending upon size for about $1000. Nice thing of this is it ties into your furnance, so when it is too cold for the Heat Pump, the furnace kicks in.

Also, some people have found you can also run a power cord directly from the electrical post, avoiding those internal electrical limitations.

Stay warm!
__________________
Ed & Mary

2017 Cougar 333MKS
2015 RAM 3500 HD with 6.4L

Pmedic4 is offline   Reply With Quote