Space Heater advice

[Dmcall52]

Hello all, any suggestions on an electric space heater for use in our Class C Jayco? It is a Greyhawk 29ME. I think it will help take the chill off without using up our propane, or running the noisy roof unit. I have been looking at some models that would take up little space on the floor and have ratings of 1500 watts. Any advice is appreciated!


Dennis

[CAG]

Walmart has a good selection. Any ceramic 1500 will work fine if it does not get too cold. I use two on low during the night. Keeps the furnace from waking me up every 10 minutes but if you have 30 amp you cannot run then, the coffee pot and microwave at the same time.

[Dmcall52]

Thanks so much! Yep, my furnace does the same thing. We are Arizonans so get cold pretty easy! We don't plan on camping in the true cold weather.



Dennis

[Jagiven]

I have a very old ceramic heater in our tt. It is a small compact cube. I place it on our stove at night. And have a small 12 volt aux fan that I have blowing over top, to spread the heat. Works nice in our fairly open tt.

[Grumpy]

Oil filled work well too. If you want some atmosphere get one that looks like a fireplace. There are numerous small ones on the market

[CAG]

Originally Posted by Grumpy

Oil filled work well too. If you want some atmosphere get one that looks like a fireplace. There are numerous small ones on the market

I did not do a lot of research into oil filled but weight and storage were deal breakers for me. The small ceramic fit in the overhead in the bedroom. Can you store an oil filled on it's side?

[Grumpy]

Originally Posted by CAG

Can you store an oil filled on it's side?

Yep....

[Screwby]

Benefit of an oil filled is it’s more economic too. Once the oil is up to temp it takes less to keep it warm unlike a ceramic that just keeps pumping heat out. And the oil filled radiator “radiates” a warm heat evenly around it instead of having a blast of hot coming out the front.

I will admit I had one leak years ago, but she’d had a hard life and been kicked around a bit in the shop.

[Camper_bob]

+1 for a small ceramic cube.

We use it to supplement the furnace, and we don't have heat strips in our roof-top AC units. Ours has a variable speed fan too, so it will push quite a bit of air if we need it to. If we get it all set right, the furnace only kicks on a few times if at all.

If it gets REALLY cold, the one little cube has trouble keeping up and the furnace runs more, but if it's not too cold for too long, the furnace rarely runs at all.

I agree with the benefits of an oil-filled unit, but the little ceramic cube is just so darn convenient; cheap, small, easy to store, effective, no risk of leak... Plus, we don't have a whole lot of really cold weather where we typically camp in the winter, so the little cube does great 97% of the time. For the other 3%, we just burn a little extra propane...