small all-electric travel trailer?
Need a TT no more than 21', will always have full hookups and never use propane. Does anyone make such a thing?
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carringb wrote:
My trailer is nearly 400 square foot, and I run nearly all electric when I'm at full hookups. I have 30 amp service.
My water heater on all-electric is plenty for 2 people to take short showers back to back. Or one person can a long shower.
My electric fireplace keeps the trailer warm on its own, until it dips into the 20's. At this point I usually run the furnace because the ducting runs though the middle of the floor, so it feels like heated floors. But I also added a pass-through 20-amp plug to the rear cargo compartment, so I can run a 2nd space heater if needed. Usually I use the extra 20-amp to power the inflatable hot-tub, which I setup in the back room.
I have one 12-amp electric appliance in the kitchen. In this case an electric kettle. IF i run the fireplace and electric kettle at the same time, the 30-amp cord does get hot. So I try to avoid that. I doesn't trip the breaker however. I think the microwave must be on a load-shedding circuit with the water heater, since I've never tripped a breaker.
And I do dun both my fridges on electric.
Your "comfortable" is most likely not the same "comfortable" for everyone.
There is no way that one single 1200W "fireplace" heater can easily provide enough heat to keep a "home like" temperature of say even 68F anywhere near 32F or below in 400 sq ft space.
I can tell you from experience rebuilding several trailers from 20ft to 26ft (170 sq ft to 221 sq ft) the ABSOLUTE best temp one single 1200W heater was able to get those trailers to was 58F with outside temps at or below 32F. OK for working in, but certainly not "comfortable" to live in. And for the record, neither trailer had slides.
The 20ft trailer had a 16K BTU furnace and the 26ft trailer had a 24K BTU furnace.. There is no way on Earth that 1200W (which is equivalent to 5,100 PROPANE BTUs) can replace a propane furnace of higher BTU rating even though RV a RV furnace has a low efficiency (under 80%)..
Some folks don't mind living in 50F and less temps 24/7/365, I am however not one of those folks. I do like 70F-74F in the winter in my sticks and bricks and I don't bother camping in snow..
