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sabconsulting
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Sep 19, 2016

Camping well below freezing - Sweden over winter

Friends of ours have taken a job working 150 miles north of the Arctic circle in Sweden this winter. The temperature gets down to -35 Celcius. They will be living in their small truck camper. It is...
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sabconsulting
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Sep 22, 2016
Electric heating was my thought too. If I pay for hookup at a campground I don't run my furnace, I use a small electric heater (about 500w). I believe their Swedish camper is very well insulated so a 240v electric heater should probably keep up with the heat loss. Of course they would want to know what amperage their 240v supply gave. In the UK a standard 240v supply from a house is 13 amps, so that is about 3Kw.

Steve.

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