Electric Heater Recommendation Needed

I drilled a hole in the bottom wall of a slide out.

Ran some heavy wire to a receptacle I put in the wall.

Put a female plug on the end of the heavy wire.

Then I plug a short heavy duty ext. cord into the plug and connect the other end to the 20 amp Plug in the power pedestal.

Keeps my main heater, a Lasko ceramic heater,off of the fiver circuits.

I really like my oil filled heater and I also put a small fan behind it.

I do not understand the comment about brown outs in Florida. The high peak time for electrical usage in Florida is during the summer when everyone is running AC on 'high', not during the winter. I've Lived in Florida for 16 years and my electric bills in winter are 1/2 what they are in summer, meaning my electric consumption is about 1/2, just like everyone else in Florida.

Rock...we used the oil heaters for 9 years of fulltiming and still do. The cord, etc have never gotten hot. We did replace one that started leaking oil. Perhaps yours was defective? We never use it with an extenion cord....

I 'used' to use the oil filled heaters.

After a few hours, running check the plug, you might change your mind using it in a MH. And more so if you are using an extension cord with it. The plug and cord get dangerously hot. This doesn't happen with the ceramic heaters. I switched to ceramic for that reason and actually found out IMHO it heated my coach far better.

A side note to those in Florida.
Depending where you are at and what power company is there: Because Florida rarely has cold temps what I found out was when night falls on an unusually cold night they brown out the electric so as to have enough for all for the high demand of unexpected usage.

I called RV repair out to check out my electric because of the unusual hot cords I was experiencing thru out the coach. He was the one that informed me of the brown outs. Inadequate power to a heating appliance is the kiss of death.

Picked up a cheap meter to monitor it and he was right on about the power being "supplied" to my coach at night dropped well below acceptable for using a heater. :(

Through the years rving, we've tried several electric heaters and have found the "Vornado" to work best at heating the rv. No doubt is because of the way it circulates the warm air about the space. Won't use any other method now. If I need to use the heat pump I do to supplement the vornado.

Terryallan wrote:
You may want to try the Oil filled heaters. They work real well. I use one in the house. They are super quiet, All you hear is a click every now and then. They put out a continuous heat. You hear nothing, the place just gets warm. No cycling on and off, and no heating up, and cooling off. Just warm.

No fire risk as with an "hot wire" heater

I use three heat sources:

1. Primary is an oil filled radiator (1500W) with an 8" fan behind it to circulate the heated air.
   
   
2. Secondary is a "milk-house" utility heater (1250W)
   
   
3. Backup is the propane furnace.

I do not use the built in thermostats in the electric heaters. Instead, I use the
LUX WIN100 electronic thermostats (they use a lithium cell for timekeeping and memory). The thermostats are set as follows:

1. Primary = 75°F.
   
   
2. Secondary = 72°F.
   
   
3. Backup = 68°F.

I just have to remember to turn off the radiator when using the µwave oven.

We also use an oil filled heater....works great

We also use an oil filled heater....works great

You may want to try the Oil filled heaters. They work real well. I use one in the house. They are super quiet, All you hear is a click every now and then. They put out a continuous heat. You hear nothing, the place just gets warm. No cycling on and off, and no heating up, and cooling off. Just warm.