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pianotuna
Dec 13, 2017Nomad III
If you listen to his video you will find he is using heat tape that is 3 watts per foot and 3 feet long. That works out to 9 watts or 30 btu's. I don't think that is enough. For comparison, a regular candle does about 80 watts or 278 btu's.
memtb wrote:
pianotuna, No disrespect intended, but.....we lived in a 5er for two winters, seeing numerous -20 to -30 F ( probably some a couple colder), and kept our water on to our camper. We were using a six foot frost-free faucet ( heat taped/insulated to the six foot depth) and the water supply hose to camper was heat taped/ insulated ( your typical foam pipe insulation.
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