air conditioner/ heating

I installed one on my old 91 pace arrow. they work great. get the coach warmed up with the furnace and the AC heat strip will keep it comfortable.

Use space heaters or if your willing to go the distance, get a Dometic heat pump they put out 15k BTUs heat, and 15k BTUs of cold.

I keep hearing about the noise of those roof top A/Cs and I will admit that since mine are ducted they are not as loud as a non-ducted one... but....

The steady drone of the blower (if you just put it on high) is very quickly filtered by your mind, thus if you forget that stupid AUTO setting which turns the blower on and off and is very annoying... You do not notice it nearly as much as you do if you set them to annoying.. er, auto.

Now. The problem with strip heat in the A/C.. There are two school of thought

1 The wiring to the A/C can easily handle a 1500 watt heat strip. the outlets down below.. Not necessary. (I had one overheat on me). (I installed better outlets).

2: Warm air rises, thus putting a heater in the ceiling.. NOT the best plan, better to put the heat near the floor.. and that is exactly how I do it.

I use up to four 1500 watt space heaters plus some additional outdoor heat.

one in the bedroom (Special 15/20 outlet fed with 12ga and the only thing on the 20 amp breaker)

One in the living room.. same as above but 15 amp breaker (Did not have a spare 20 at the time I hooked it up)

One more in the living room, shares breaker with bedroom A/C. also shares break-out system that lets me power it off the park's 20 amp outlet when on a 30 amp site.

One hooked to the washer/dryer circuit (Currently in storage). If it's below freezing out I use them all

Basement has a string of C-9 Christmas tree lights, roughly 24 9 watt heaters and a 100 watt rough service lamp (300 watts of heat) plus a 150 watt heater if it is getting truly cold.

And I still have my propane burner for when needed.

Last night.. I needed none of the above.

my old MH had the heat strips in the ceiling a/c units.... they were great for taking out the chill on an early spring or fall morning.... would not "heat" the bus if it was really cold..........

Well, it is a very safe way to add electric heat throughout the coach. They probably are only about 5,000 Btu or such though. Find out how much and how many Btu they output.

I try not to use the propane furnace at all in a campground unless I am paying for the electric. Even then I kinda prefer to use electric heat since you don't have a tank of electricity that you have to refill.

Are they really cheap?
I have some cube heaters I bought at wallmart for $15, so far I've only used them to keep plumbing from freezing, but they make a lot of heat. They are tiny too.

Our ceiling units have heat pumps, and I do use em as you said, to save propane.

But the ceiling units are really noisy, I much prefer to shut em off at night if possible.

A Heat Strip is about 5600 BTU's. A Furnace is anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000 BTU's. A Heat Strip is NOT like a Electric Space heater. A Heat Strip is just to take the morning/evening chill out of the air and is NOT a good investment to try to use to Heat the RV. Doug

Did you look at the BTU's that the heat strip outs out?
How much $$$ for how many BTU's?
Most are not worth it IMO