Water Heater on or off when Full Timing
My wife and I have been RVing for 30 + years and Full-Timing for 3 years. We have had more than one conversation about leaving the water heater on to ensure we have hot water when we need it, or to tu...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
.... Electric when AC Power is available otherwise Propane as it is NOT all that expensive (if it was about 'costs' I would not have an RV).
There's only one thing I hate more on RV trips than having to gas up often, so I really appreciate the range we get off the RV's fuel tank.
The one thing I hate more is pulling up stakes - especially boondocking stakes - to drive all over the place to find someplace and someone who can and will refill our built-in propane tank. Our propane supply is precious to us, as it's the most difficult expendable in our RV to replenish.
So .... we have no propane flame burning when not absolutely necessary. i.e. We light and extinguish the oven's pilot light with every use and only have the propane-only water heater turned on around the times we need hot water. For some reason, Winnebago packed in a whole bunch of insulation around our WH, so once heated, the water remains pretty hot for a long time. Of course we leave the refrig on Auto, so it never uses propane unless it has no choice ... I even wish that it was a 3-way refrigerator to better conserve propane.
I guess that's an advantage of a small TT or a TC ... they often use the common little 5 gal propane tanks, so it's easy to have them refilled or exchange them everywhere.
