With the cooler weather now here, this is just an idea some one could use to
keep their campers warmer, depending on the model & space available to do it...
I'm talking about electric toehold/kick plate heaters....
In the Holiday Rambler TT I had, we had a Suburban Gas heater, that when it started up, it would whine away and cycle....To me it was just to noisy, and consumed a lot of propane.
So I got this idea to use more electric and less propane...
I found that I had space under a cabinet to cut a hole and install one..
These are some of the models available you could possibly use;
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=electric+kick+plate+heaters...
I cut the hole, and wired it into the air condition circuit....admittedly this is NOT to code..BUT
I figured since I wasn't running the air conditioning and the heater at the same time I could get away with it....It worked fine and kept the camper warm down to freezing, and if it got colder, then I'd just kick on the propane heater to make up the difference...
One winter, when it got down to 15 degrees on Cedar Key, on the gulf coast of Florida, NOTHING could keep the camper warm....So I got another idea, and installed an outlet thru the camper wall, and hooked up a male/prong type outlet on the outside of the camper....That would take a standard 12 ga.extention cord,and plug it into one of the extra 15amp outlets on the camp site electrical posts, and I had a standard GFI outlet on the interior of the camper to plug in an additional electrical space heater...Voila....We had heat, and I didn't have to burn my propane, and listen to the propane heater whine all night...
Now, mind you, I understand that a lot of the newer units have strip heaters in their units,
but I offer this as just an alternative to anbody wanting extra heat.
The limiting factor in most cases, is the 30 amp circuits in the campers, and the individual breakers....Most sites electrical posts offer 2 extra 15 amp circuits that could be used if needed...Why not use them???
