heat
Is it ok to run my heater when plugged into my house circuit. ( 15-20 amp)?
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The furnace is the best source of heat but it's very limited in the time you can use it.
The typical camper furnace burns 19,000 BTU of propane every hour of flame time. That's just about the heat produced from 1 pound of LP so figure on 20 hours of flame time before the 20 pound tank is empty. Lots of heat but burns LP at a prodigious rate.
An electric heater produces much less heat (only about 5,000 BTU) but will do so for as long as electric is provided. Those 5,000 BTU need about 15 amps of AC power to produce which is the breaker capacity of the typical camper breaker.
Note a hair dryer will product 5,000 BTU too which explains why these heaters product so little heat.
Our Roo has heated tanks and I use them and an electric heater when the trailer is out of service and not winterized. We haven't been below freezing her on the North Coast yet this year so heat has not been required. She's winterized anyway and in the barn at the fairgrounds until April.
When camping with shorepower we use a heater but set the furnace to come on about 55°F.
-- Chuck
The typical camper furnace burns 19,000 BTU of propane every hour of flame time. That's just about the heat produced from 1 pound of LP so figure on 20 hours of flame time before the 20 pound tank is empty. Lots of heat but burns LP at a prodigious rate.
An electric heater produces much less heat (only about 5,000 BTU) but will do so for as long as electric is provided. Those 5,000 BTU need about 15 amps of AC power to produce which is the breaker capacity of the typical camper breaker.
Note a hair dryer will product 5,000 BTU too which explains why these heaters product so little heat.
Our Roo has heated tanks and I use them and an electric heater when the trailer is out of service and not winterized. We haven't been below freezing her on the North Coast yet this year so heat has not been required. She's winterized anyway and in the barn at the fairgrounds until April.
When camping with shorepower we use a heater but set the furnace to come on about 55°F.
-- Chuck
