Heat/Air Combo

ksg5000 wrote:
Do you neighbors a favor and use portable electric heaters - efficient and quiet. One of the benefits of camping during the winter is that most campgrounds are quiet - until someone rolls in and turns on their air conditioning unit/heat pump. Just my 02.

I can't hear other peoples heating and A/C units while inside my rig (even when I had my 5th wheel), yours must have very poor or non existent insulation.

Heat strips are a waste of $$$. Go with a heat pump.

A heat pump is the way to go but they only work down to temps in the mid 30 degrees. Then you will still need the gas furnace.

Hi bamagirl,

There are two ways to do it.

One is to buy an air conditioner that has a spot for a "heat strip". That will provide about 5000 btu's of heat. I find mine useful, but most folks don't like them because the heat is much cooler than they expect (after all it may be coming out of 6 or 7 ducts). Also, heat does rise--so warming up the ceiling doesn't do much for the floor. (we would not want you to get "cold feet".)

RV heat strip

A better, but more expensive way, is to upgrade to a heat pump. Basically it is an air conditioner that can extract heat from outside air--and "pump" it into the RV. These will produce much more usable heat--perhaps as much as 15000 btu's.

rv heat pump

Heat strips are an option on most AC units. Just ask the selling dealer for that option.

There are a few.