What space heater do you have?
What space heater do you recommend and why? On the days where ya rig needs a little extra heat, what have you guys bought to take care of it? I'm in the market.
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
Heat pumps work by extracting heat. This heat pump and every other heat pump extracts latent heat from outside the RV and pumps it to inside the RV. I'm glad it works in temperatures down to the teens.
Extracting heat from inside the RV and returning the heat to the RV would be a perpetual motion device.rgatijnet1 wrote:
Unlike roof top heat pumps, the single hose heat pump draws air from the inside of the coach, and it will work just fine no matter what the outside temperature drops to. We have used ours in locations where the outside temps were in the teens.
Single-Hose portable heat pumps run inside air over the exhaust coils and then push that outside by a single hose. This does have the downside of pulling cold outside air in due to a vacuum created by that hose. It will however create excellent heat from the register unless the air in the room drops below freezing or so.
I have a portable air conditioner that I sometimes use in the garage. It is a single hose and unfortunately, it pushes a ton of air through that exhaust hose. It still cools the garage but a lot of hot humid air is pulled in due to vacuum. It is possible that the airflow requirements for an exhaust in a single hose heat pump may be much less. If that is true, then it would be about perfect as you do want a bit of outside air run through an RV to help with humidity.
