CheapHeat System?
In the Dec 2013 issue of TRAILER LIFE magazine there is an article on the CheapHeat after-market electric system. I was shocked to read the authors proclaim even additional savings when in camp gro...
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rhagfo wrote:thomasmnile wrote:
Might be cheap from the standpoint of hookup to an un-metered (and therefore "free") electrical connection in a CG, but no way is electrical resistance heating more efficient than LP or natural gas. Either provides more heat when burned per unit volume consumed than a kilowatt of electrical energy.
Cheap heat could easily be had or improved at RV factories by better insulating and sealing rigs within the confines of their construction (wall/roof/"basement" 'thickness') and I don't mean using the mylar bubble wrap crap.
I think I would disagree with the gas or propane being more efficient. There is no exhaust for the electric heater, all produced heat goes into the heat duct, electric heat is near 100% efficient. I think it would also be cheaper than burning propane @ near 3.00 a gallon.
Think of it this way: Outside of nuclear power generation, utilities are not using heating elements in steam boilers producing steam to spin a turbine and produce electricity. Even in Florida where serious heating is seldom needed and natural gas is available, new homes are built with gas furnaces installed in place of electric heat pumps. I pray for relatively mild winters because when the "supplemental" resistance heat strip kicks on in the stick n' brick heat pump the electric meter spins itself off the wall...........
