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time2roll
Nomad
Feb 15, 2018

> Recirculate hot water-completed-pictures added

I added a system to circulate hot water. Not really a convenience thing but to use my fair weather trailer in temperatures well below freezing. I installed an El Sid recirculating pump. This pump i...
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GordonThree
Explorer
Feb 15, 2018
time2roll wrote:
GordonThree wrote:
When boondocking in the winter, the generator runs all the time. If I were not alone, I could curb those hours. While the generator runs, my oil filled heater cycles on and off, drawing 900 watts.
Heat pump would put twice the BTU into the RV for the same wattage as a resistance heater.
Of course there are limits on outside temps.


Too far north for a heat pump. Talking teens and 20s outside temp.

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