Using a Ceramic Heater

rollexx wrote:
We have been using the mini cube for years. Rarely have to use the furnace other than for a quick heat up in the morning. Unless you are planning on using 2 it isn't a problem just using an inside plug. We do have to turn it off when wife uses her hair dryer but that's it.

We do this too. We just plug our little heater into the wall outlet. The heater in our TT is just about useless, but our little ceramic heater will bring the temps up to nearly balmy in a short period of time. In fact, sometimes it gets so warm in there at night that we have to get up and turn it down.

When the camper is parked next to the house during the winter, it's plugged in to its own 30amp outlet. We keep a little ceramic heater set up inside. If we see the weather is going to get cold, we turn the little heater on low and open all the cabinets. It keeps everything around 40 degrees in there and we've managed to avoid frozen & broken pipes.

If looking for a ceramic cube heater to date the best I have seen (and own) is the Broan 6201. LINK

I also have a Delonghi HMP1500 mica panel heater which is both light weight and silent (no fan). The down side is the size and it requires floor space. We use the mica heater when we know we are going to be running heat plugged in and won't be cramped for space. The Broan stays in the RV full time so we can use it as needed.

I use a Honeywell oscillating cool touch heater to heat our hybrid when the night temps dip down here in the northeast. It does a great job and keeps our trailer nice and toasty and it's safe even around our small kids.

I have zero need to run this heater off the pedestal by a dedicated cord. The only other really high usage item in my trailer is the A/C and I would never be running it and the heater at the same time.

I use two without running a separate cord on 30A. Run one on high and one on low. pretty much take care of my heating needs.

We don't use any of the electric heaters that have open flame, red hot cores, etc as they would have to be turned off when we were not around. You have no idea what roams the floors and walls in your trailer at least we don't haha.. You also don't have worry about a curtain catching on fire as well...

I would seriously think about the oil-filled no open flame type heaters. They will warm up as good as any of them. BTU's is BTU's

Just my thoughts on heaters...

Oh we also use the 20AMP Service at the camp ground pedestals all the time. They are on separate breakers so its free to use and won't take away from your 30AMP side. WIN WIN WIN for us. As a matter of fact this is the power that runs my oil-filled heaters when we use them.

Look around you should be able to find a way into your trailer. Perhaps the seal around the storage bay door will let you run a an extension cord thru and still close the door. Some folks add a MALE weather tight 120VAC 20AMP receptacle on the side of the trailer behind a lid door. Then they have a special 120VAC extension cord that fits their MALE receptacle...

Definitely a way to gain some more power in your trailer for sure...

Roy Ken

rollexx wrote:
We have been using the mini cube for years. Rarely have to use the furnace other than for a quick heat up in the morning. Unless you are planning on using 2 it isn't a problem just using an inside plug. We do have to turn it off when wife uses her hair dryer but that's it.

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We have been using the mini cube for years. Rarely have to use the furnace other than for a quick heat up in the morning. Unless you are planning on using 2 it isn't a problem just using an inside plug. We do have to turn it off when wife uses her hair dryer but that's it.

Run a power cord in the hole where you put your 30 AMP power cord in and connect it to a outlet. I installed a outlet on the wall next to my power inverter which is powered by the power cord directly. when I unplug the 30 amp power cord and stuff it in the hole for travel I Stuff the power cord in along with it.

Since you don't have your profile filled out, we don't know what you have for an RV, so any comment is pretty much a guess.

However, as a general comment, a heater (at 11 to 12.5 amps) running still leaves lots of capacity from a 30 amp pedestal.

If you have slide outs snake the cord out around the seals that's what I do with my Sat wire.