Electric Heater Question
Tomorrow I'm trading my 2013 Apex 268 for a 2014 Arctic Fox 25p. I'm so stoked. Wife and I want to do winter camping. The question is I'm looking at supplementing the regular heat with an electric hea...
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Brilliant ideas from myredracer and pianotuna - thanks!
OP - seems you are looking for something a little less radical than these solutions, and I offer my experience.
I have a 1500W tower heater that oscialltes and has various temp settings, etc. When plugged it it will trip the circuit breaker when the microwave is switched on. So the solution is to turn off the heater when nuking anything. We use the electric heater as a supplement to the very powerful and efficient furnace, and since I have a digital thermostat that is pretty accurate at holding temperature, the furnace rarely kicks in when the electric heater is being used, if the two are set properly and it is not that cold. So turning off the electric heater for a few minutes does not affect the temperature inside the coach at all.
Of course as others have suggested you can run a separate 20A line to the trailer just for use by the heater but so far I have not seen the need to to go this extra step. I don't full time.
OP - seems you are looking for something a little less radical than these solutions, and I offer my experience.
I have a 1500W tower heater that oscialltes and has various temp settings, etc. When plugged it it will trip the circuit breaker when the microwave is switched on. So the solution is to turn off the heater when nuking anything. We use the electric heater as a supplement to the very powerful and efficient furnace, and since I have a digital thermostat that is pretty accurate at holding temperature, the furnace rarely kicks in when the electric heater is being used, if the two are set properly and it is not that cold. So turning off the electric heater for a few minutes does not affect the temperature inside the coach at all.
Of course as others have suggested you can run a separate 20A line to the trailer just for use by the heater but so far I have not seen the need to to go this extra step. I don't full time.
