Electric heaters for travel trailers

Duck wrote:

Road Dog wrote:
Google "Vornado" Great heater and very quiet! The problem with small cube heaters is they are noisy. Small fan and high rpm's make more noise!

X2 Fan noise can be a problem with some of the cheap heaters.
Don

We use a Vornado DVTH. It is very quiet and the digital thermostat does a good job or regulating the temperature and fan speed.

philnoah wrote:
Can someone provide some information on they type of electric supplemental heat
you use in your RV. This is in lieu of using propane over extended stays.

I just use the normal ceramic ones, but like to have one that oscillates since that seems to spread the heat out more and I put the main one under the A/C intake and run the A/C on fan only and that helps even out the temps throughout the trailer better.

Here is a pic of the Pelonis one I have currently:



Larry

philnoah wrote:
Jay, what brand of baseboard heater did you use?

Check your private messages.


Jay

Paw Paw John wrote:
I too went looking for better heat. I found it at rvcomfortsystems.com, it's called cheap heat and it works great...

I'm sure it does work great but it definitely isn't cheap in spite of the name. :B

I too went looking for better heat. I found it at rvcomfortsystems.com, it's called cheap heat and it works great!!! This system installs into the gas heater and work thru the thermostat. Can not be beat. Been using mine for over three years and keeps my camper evenly heated, also the basement. Good luck.

Mine came with a built in fireplace/ heater combo. Looks nice and puts out heat with no noise.

We use a plain, cheap ($10 on clearance) 1,500 watt electric heater.

All portable heaters are limited to a maximum of 1,500 watts which is just over 5,000 BTU. This is true whether you pay $500 or $5 for the heater.

RangerJay wrote:
We played with ceramic heaters, tower heaters, radiant heaters and oil-filled radiators ad nauseam for several years before finally installing two 120V baseboard heaters and a digital wall-mount thermostat that has very narrow and precise temperature control (+/- .15 degrees C) - the difference in comfort is night and day - there are no longer "cold" times or "hot" times

I suspect.. That Thermostat is the reason for the comfort.

I use small "Cube" type heaters here both Ceramic and "other" but... The problem I have with them is the thermostat.. I'd love to use a digital wall mount on most of them. and that .15C (Wow, that's less than 0.1 F) would make it the same temp +/- basically nothing all the time.. Now that is what makes for comfort.

Can you please post or PM me the make and model of that T-Stat.. Thanks

Road Dog wrote:
Google "Vornado" Great heater and very quiet! The problem with small cube heaters is they are noisy. Small fan and high rpm's make more noise!

X2 Fan noise can be a problem with some of the cheap heaters.
Don

We use a small milk house style eletric heater with a thermostat. The low setting will generally sufficiently heat our 28 foot TT. It has no visible red hot element and I can keep my hand on any portion of the heater without burning. For that reason, I consider it to be fairly safe.

2 days ago, I purchased a $20 quartz heater from Lowes that has a 400 and 800 watt setting. I was amazed at how much heat the thing put out on the 800 watt setting. With no fan there was simply no noise what-so-ever. Nice little heater and the high setting at 800 watts is about half the wattage of the high setting on most little heaters I've seen, but yet lots of heat.