Recommendation for heater?
Hey, I'm looking for a recommendation for an electric space heater. I live in my camper . Last year I bought a well reviewed space heater on amazon that kept flipping the circuit breaker switch. I ...
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pianotuna wrote:
Gdetrailer,
The "usual" furnace on an RV is about 5862 watts.
I do have the OEM power cord, and two auxiliary shore power cords. I have pretty good luck finding two outlets on different breakers. Three is a bit harder but still possible at some locations.
At -27 C (-17 f) my peak load goes to 7100 watts and the average is about 4000. That includes running a block heater for the car. At those temperatures I need 3 15 amp circuits--or a 50 amp with a "break out box".
Correct, YOU are using a highly MODIFIED RV setup.
The OP from what I can tell is attempting to do something similar using ONE SINGLE 15A/20A house circuit which for all we know most likely is a shared circuit in the house with something else..
They do not have the luxury of drawing 2400W let alone 7000 W that you do..
Huge difference.
OP NEEDS to acquire an additional 15A/20A circuit and extension cord in order to use any portable 1500W 120V heater.
Messing around with even 600W setting on a oil heater most likely will result in tripped breakers in the house..
