Electric heater vs using furnace in fall?
Need advice from experienced campers since wife and I only started this year and have camped only 10 nights due to P/T job getting in the way after retiring....We have a 2014 Keystone Bullet 285 RLS T...
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Right now I am pushing the limit on the weather; days in the 60’s and nights in the low 30’s with heavy frost.
I am at a private seminar with the closest power about 100 ft. and only a 16 ga. power cord to the shore power cable. I had expected temps in the 40’s and a closer electric hook up but this is the hand I was dealt.
So here is what we do to get by for the next two days in our 25 ft TT. The 16 ga. power cord limits our power draw.
• Keep the slide in to reduce the TT volume.
• Switch the hot water heater to gas to reduce electric draw.
• Keep shades down to reduce window heat loss.
• Use the furnace to bring the TT temp up when we return in the evening.
It takes about 15 minutes to warm the TT up.
We run the 1500 watt electric heater at the medium setting to keep from overheating the power cord .
So far so good the TT is about 58 degrees at night with the electric heat at medium, annoying but tolerable for two nights.
Sometimes you have to adapt to the situation and I would rather run the electric heat than the furnace.
I am at a private seminar with the closest power about 100 ft. and only a 16 ga. power cord to the shore power cable. I had expected temps in the 40’s and a closer electric hook up but this is the hand I was dealt.
So here is what we do to get by for the next two days in our 25 ft TT. The 16 ga. power cord limits our power draw.
• Keep the slide in to reduce the TT volume.
• Switch the hot water heater to gas to reduce electric draw.
• Keep shades down to reduce window heat loss.
• Use the furnace to bring the TT temp up when we return in the evening.
It takes about 15 minutes to warm the TT up.
We run the 1500 watt electric heater at the medium setting to keep from overheating the power cord .
So far so good the TT is about 58 degrees at night with the electric heat at medium, annoying but tolerable for two nights.
Sometimes you have to adapt to the situation and I would rather run the electric heat than the furnace.
