Coleman AC. Should we upgrade to heat pump

Heat pumps are a great way to heat the coach when temperatures are not below 38. we live in Florida and spend a lot of time in the South East so for us they are perfect. Most heat pumps put out around 14,000 BTU's at the same power consumption an electric heater uses to produce 5,000 BTU's. Put another way, a roof a/c with a heat strip produces 1/3 the BTU's produced by a heat pump.
A heat pump has a COP of 3 and a heat strip has a COP of 1 meaning the pump is 3 times more efficent at the same power consumption. Generally people north of the Mason Dixon line ae not big advocates of heat pumps.

We are snow birds so that might be worth it to us to switch

dougrainer wrote:

msturtz wrote:
A heat pump is economical to operate and distributes even dry heat. I had them on a prior rig and really liked it. It does not use nearly as much energy as a radiant heater or strip heat.

A Heat Pump will pull 1680 watts. I do not know of a Radiant heater for standard Household use that pulls more than 1500 watts. They use about the same energy, but the HP will distribute the Heat much better and thruout the RV unlike a Radiant heater. Doug

To be clear I should have said it is they are more efficient in that you get 15000 BTU with about 1650 Watts. A 1500 watt Hester produces 5118 BTU.

chuckftboy wrote:
Heat pumps are a great way to heat the coach when temperatures are not below 38. we live in Florida and spend a lot of time in the South East so for us they are perfect. Most heat pumps put out around 14,000 BTU's at the same power consumption an electric heater uses to produce 5,000 BTU's. Put another way, a roof a/c with a heat strip produces 1/3 the BTU's produced by a heat pump.
A heat pump has a COP of 3 and a heat strip has a COP of 1 meaning the pump is 3 times more efficent at the same power consumption. Generally people north of the Mason Dixon line ae not big advocates of heat pumps.

I'm in Washington State and am a big fan. Sure during the dead of winter it won't work but the rest of the heating season it's great.

We have twin a/c heat pumps in our 35 ft motor home. They are terrific, we do a lot of camping spring and fall and never need heater.Would never have another rv with out them.

susblum wrote:
We are snow birds so that might be worth it to us to switch

Unless you were billed separately for the electric go buy a couple space heaters. When the AC cannot be fixed cheaply replace it with a heat pump.

If using two space heaters be sure that you have them plugged into two different circuits. And, 50 amp service would be a good idea.