Here is an article I posted a week or so ago when I decided to buy a Olympian WAVE 6 catalytic heater.http://rvbprecision.com/shooting/olympian-wave-6-propane-heater-review.htmlNow that I've been using it for over a week in near freezing weather out here in the Arizona desert I have some comments.......FANTASTIC! Couldn't be happier.......Keeps my 20' trailer easily at 70 degrees. Sips propane......Used it every night for 10 days and still have plenty of propane.NO NOISE!!!! The trailers furnace sounds like a 747 taking off every 20 minutes. Totally silent.Three temperature settings allows the heat to be very easily regulated. Never too hot, not too cold...Just right!No condensation....The furnace created condensation on all the windows and the aluminum frame around my toy haulers ramp. ZERO with the WAVE 6. (now this most likely is because I opened the side vents on the toy hauler to give the WAVE 6 the needed fresh air it needed) Extremely fast heat up of the interior. Within minutes, the trailer is warm. And being radiant heat, sitting in front of the heater you are warmed immediately. No blast of cold air for a few minutes like the furnace did.These devices should be the standard way that these small RVs are heated rather than a complex furnace.

I been using them for 34 yrs.Desert, great, but in higher humidity, you will have condensation.Now are you ready to get hammered on,.....most all by ignorant people that have never had one ? !!

“These devices should be the standard way that these small RVs are heated rather than a complex furnace.”So why are they not standard equipment? Couldn’t be cost or efficiency. Ventilation? Hopefully you are very careful but others are not.

Something was/is wrong with your furnace if it was creating condensation. Combustion byproducts are vented outside unless your heat exchanger is damaged.

if your in a dry climate, the wave and similar heaters can be nice and also help get humidity up. Now go to the oregon coast in the fall/winter where outside humidity is near 100%. Then the wave isn't so great. inside humidity goes up and you can end up with fogged windows almost all the time.Eastern oregon, great, nice and dry.that's the biggest issue I had using the wave heater where the normal humidity is high. Quite, YES, efficient YES. oh, and a place we often use the Wave in the cooler weather is to put it out under the awning in the evening so DW stays warm when we are outside under the awning with no fire going.Or when not camping it's on the back patio to keep me warm when I'm running the BBQ.And if your gas furnace is raising the humidity in the trailer, you have a real problem. all the combustion gas is vented outside in a properly working furnace. It won't add ANY moisture to inside air so RH will go DOWN as the air heats up.

i used a wave heater in the Safari for 7yrsit worked very well

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MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Feb 25, 2018
For stick & brick I'm going with a Kero Sun, kerosene heater + ULSD

0 CO2. no odor, and burns clean. But not clean enough for a rig.

Run fuel through a RAcor filter with "S" 1-micron cartridge. Eliminates impurities and water.
mockturtle
Explorer II
Feb 25, 2018
I love my Wave 6, also. Though with my small RV a Wave 3 would have been sufficient.
DiskDoctr
Explorer
Feb 25, 2018
We have the same heater. Be sure to keep the cover on it when not in use to protect the catalyst from dust and stuff, it will degrade it.

Great review!
MrWizard
Moderator
Feb 25, 2018
i used a wave heater in the Safari for 7yrs
it worked very well
ktmrfs
Explorer II
Feb 25, 2018
if your in a dry climate, the wave and similar heaters can be nice and also help get humidity up.

Now go to the oregon coast in the fall/winter where outside humidity is near 100%. Then the wave isn't so great. inside humidity goes up and you can end up with fogged windows almost all the time.

Eastern oregon, great, nice and dry.

that's the biggest issue I had using the wave heater where the normal humidity is high. Quite, YES, efficient YES.

oh, and a place we often use the Wave in the cooler weather is to put it out under the awning in the evening so DW stays warm when we are outside under the awning with no fire going.

Or when not camping it's on the back patio to keep me warm when I'm running the BBQ.

And if your gas furnace is raising the humidity in the trailer, you have a real problem. all the combustion gas is vented outside in a properly working furnace. It won't add ANY moisture to inside air so RH will go DOWN as the air heats up.
GordonThree
Explorer
Feb 25, 2018
Something was/is wrong with your furnace if it was creating condensation. Combustion byproducts are vented outside unless your heat exchanger is damaged.
Lwiddis
Explorer II
Feb 25, 2018
“These devices should be the standard way that these small RVs are heated rather than a complex furnace.”

So why are they not standard equipment? Couldn’t be cost or efficiency. Ventilation? Hopefully you are very careful but others are not.
RJsfishin
Explorer
Feb 25, 2018
I been using them for 34 yrs.
Desert, great, but in higher humidity, you will have condensation.

Now are you ready to get hammered on,.....most all by ignorant people that have never had one ? !!

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