Electric heater vs using furnace in fall?
Need advice from experienced campers since wife and I only started this year and have camped only 10 nights due to P/T job getting in the way after retiring....We have a 2014 Keystone Bullet 285 RLS T...
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gdhillard wrote:
My trailer is a 1969 Terry, 18 foot. The furnace is not ducted at all, and is rated 11,000BTU, so I should have enough heat. I suspect that the Ashley is more efficient, so I might even be a bit ahead.
I wouldn't be so sure. My 2014 Freedom Express 192RBS measures 22' 6" coupler to bumper but the box is just 18' 6" and is running a direct blow Suburban 7920 Series II furnace rated at 18,000 BTU input but just 13,680 BTU output. With such a small space to deal with and a high speed fan to distribute the heat it can warm up the trailer's interior quite rapidly BUT it's likely putting out twice as much heat energy as that Ashley heater you've linked to which is passive and doesn't have any fan to distribute the small amount of heat it produces. Considering it's significant cost vs the cost of a couple of 1500 watt electric heaters that together would also be rated at over 11,000 BTU it would be really difficult to justify the cost of this Ashley heater despite the fact it doesn't require electric power to operate.
