Wall mount electric heater

ZINGERLITE wrote:
Does anyone run a wall mount electric heater? What about the ones that look like a glade plug in?

We've got an 18' travel trailer we'd like to keep warm in the spring/fall. The Gas furnace is just too powerful in my opinion. Its either 75/80 degrees inside or off. The campers too small for the gas furnace. It warms it up nice and quick when we want it warm. At 2am we wake up in a sauna.

The last couple seasons ive been using a cheap duraflame heater i picked up for $20 or so at TSC. It works well but its always in the way. Something on the wall would be great as an 18' camper has its own storage issues.

Just curious if anyone else has this problem. Input is appreciated.

It sounds like you have perfect gas furnace heating capacity in your little trailer. In other words - a furnace that is sized generously enough such that it can keep you comfortable in any cold weather situation that you should ever encounter. I'd much rather have this situation in an RV than an under-sized furnace situation.

That being said ... however what you have is a temperature control problem for that great gas furnace. Install, or have installed, a digital thermostat to replace what you probably have -> just a simple slider type "analog" type control that is probably not operating properly or is just plain getting worn out.

For comparison, the digital control in our small Class C turns the furnace ON if it detects an interior temperature one degree BELOW what we have it set for, and turns the furnace OFF if it detects an interior temperature two degrees ABOVE what we have it set for. This is a tight 3 degree temperature band that keeps us real comfortable.

Digital RV gas furnace controls are not expensive. I suggest you try this first before considering other heaters.