Staying Warm

pnichols wrote:
your comments started me thinking. You say that only the propane furnace supplies the neccessary BTUs to keep the coach area warm so therefore the generator by itself powering electric heaters is not an option. This situation doesn't mean that you can only keep warm until the propane runs out using only the propane. I'll bet your propane furnace could be used more days when drycamping if you ran it at the same time as the generator and electric heaters and thus keeping the propance furnace's ON cycles much shorter. Using these two together in combination may extend your cold weather drycamping time way beyond what you could get by using only the furnace by itself with the generator/electric heaters not being used.

Yes, generator running with supplemental electric heaters would be a good idea. It sounds like there are other opinions - that electric heaters will do the job. I exercise my generator in the winter with electric heaters. After running for an hour or two they barely take the chill off. BUT, again, I haven't done any sort of special insulating or anything. And maybe 2 hours isn't enough.

It's 10F outside right now. I fired up the furnaces about 90 minutes ago from a cold start (they haven't been on since this past weekend). It's about 50 in there now. I'm headed out to do some work on the rear thermostat (it's faulty) and the radio.