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Do you sometimes use a portable electric heater in your RV?
 
With  2278 responses thus far, here's how the voting is going:
 
Yes
82.70% (1884)
No
17.30% (394)
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Yes, i use a ceramic disk heater just after two blankets are just not warm enough.
Posted:   7/5/2009  By: Anonymous  
We use a ceramic heater to take the chill off in the mornings or the dampness out if it has or is raining.Some times just a little heat is all you need not the whole cycle of the propane furnace.
Posted:   6/23/2009  By: from maine  
Our coach is all electric, no propane. We use one of the Quartz infra-red heaters that Paul Harvey advertises, called a Sun-Twin. Draws 14 amps. Works great and looks like a piece of furniture. We also have Hydo-Hot and AC heatpumps. Pumps work down to 40 degrees if needed, heater works better though.
Posted:   6/20/2009  By: Ken  
Prices at parks are so high, a little juice used will not hurt them and saves the propane for non hookup times. The anonomus who is afraid to use his name is probably a park owner.
Posted:   6/20/2009  By: Lee  
And you wonder why RV parks have to raise the rates. Use your propane!!!
Posted:   6/20/2009  By: Anonymous  
I believe most of the portable heaters to be a fire hazard, especially if you have children or pets. So we will not have one. It is not worth putting our rig at risk. San Jose, CA
Posted:   6/16/2009  By: San Jose  
We are in oregon now and use our fireplace almost every morning, it works great to take the chill out.
Posted:   6/15/2009  By: Anonymous  
We have two electric fireplaces and use those. Also have a heat pump built into our AC system and also use that sometime. The fireplaces put out quite a bit of heat.
Posted:   6/15/2009  By: Anonymous  
We primarily use a Holmes oil filled radiator style. It is quiet, efficient, and we feel safer than a resistant coil type heater.
Posted:   6/15/2009  By: Anonymous  
We spent last winter in Florida and there were one or two nights a week that the the temperature was down in the 20s. To save on propane gas we purchased a 1500 w heater. The propane was set to 60 to assist should the temperature get that cold in the trailer. We could not use the heater and large drawing appliance together. This summer I will fish an extension into the living area from the outside to take advantage of the 20 amp plug along side the 30 amp plug in most parks. We will then be free to use the entire 30 amp in the trailer while heating with the electric heater. We were very surprised to find that it gets that cold in Florida.
Posted:   6/14/2009  By: Roland  
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