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Polite suggestions please re heating. Hot air heating in the MH. Eats power. At present option of adding additional leisure battery not financially possible. Any suggestions for a safe free standing economical heater that I could use and leave on low overnight if I wanted to go wilding. Have Buster who can be lively chasing, to us, invisible insects. TIA
 
Hi ya,
Yeah it's 'That time of year' again isn't it.
You may want to have a look at a Recent thread I done somewhere called
Boom Boom Boom Boom Eeek Blue
Members put some suggestions fwd there.
 
The Eber Airtronic is very effective and is cheap to run. I installed mine under the drivers seat and so is neatly out the way, but can also be installed just about anywhere, including underslung below the floor.
Webasto make a similar heater.
Alternative get a propane heater (Propex?) if you have an propane tank, this could be the most cost effective option as not paying road fuel tax on the fuel the Ebers and Webastos use (Diesel)
 
I have a truma 2400 gas hot air heater, runs on o.6 amph .it is cheap to run on gasit refill ,and is very quiet.40 amps should run for 80 hours or more if thermastat is turned down .
 
Depends on how big your motorhome is, but can't you get a vented gas heater that works pretty well without having any fan at all
 
wildebus said:
The Eber Airtronic is very effective and is cheap to run. I installed mine under the drivers seat and so is neatly out the way, but can also be installed just about anywhere, including underslung below the floor.
Webasto make a similar heater.
Alternative get a propane heater (Propex?) if you have an propane tank, this could be the most cost effective option as not paying road fuel tax on the fuel the Ebers and Webastos use (Diesel)
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You can run them on home heating oil at 28p a ltr but must have a second tank.
What about a old type gas caravan heater which exhausts to outside making it 100% safe & no electric required.
 
trevskoda said:
You can run them on home heating oil at 28p a ltr but must have a second tank.
What about a old type gas caravan heater which exhausts to outside making it 100% safe & no electric required.
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my van has a gas fire, vented through an outside flue where the fumes exiting onto the roof. it uses the same gas bottle that my kitchen hob uses. i had the pipework replaced with modern copper pipe when i bought the van, and have the fire and pipes checked out by a GASSAFE engineer every year. it is not expensive to run and heats the van up very quickly. if i sleep downstairs in the winter i can reach over to the fire to switch it on before getting up !!!! There are reputable second hand spares companies who will sell it and fit it for you.
 
trevskoda said:
You can run them on home heating oil at 28p a ltr but must have a second tank.
What about a old type gas caravan heater which exhausts to outside making it 100% safe & no electric required.
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28p a litre? Must be discounted over there! Costs well over 40p a litre here for heating oil and rising all the time now (About to order 700 litres so if you know a tanker driver who will get on a ferry... ;) )

I was thinking about getting a secondary tank for my Eber when I was going to install it on my VW T4 as I used to run that on Veg Oil, which the Eberspacher isn't rated for, but never installed the heater in it in the end. Unless virtually full-timing, the amount of fuel the Eber uses it really isn't worth mucking around with secondary supplies (could take years to recoup the outlay)
 
wildebus said:
28p a litre? Must be discounted over there! Costs well over 40p a litre here for heating oil and rising all the time now (About to order 700 litres so if you know a tanker driver who will get on a ferry... ;) )

I was thinking about getting a secondary tank for my Eber when I was going to install it on my VW T4 as I used to run that on Veg Oil, which the Eberspacher isn't rated for, but never installed the heater in it in the end. Unless virtually full-timing, the amount of fuel the Eber uses it really isn't worth mucking around with secondary supplies (could take years to recoup the outlay)
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Just looked oil price up 5 mins ago ,its now standing at £329 for 900ltrs,its sold here in either 500 or 900 ltr amounts,outside this they get the arm in.
Your prob right about second tank unless you full timing.
 
I had a gas fire in Gertie. It was great
Would be great to have one in Leo but was told the cost was prohibitive and difficult to find somewhere to put it
 
hairydog said:
You can buy a leisure battery for about £70. The only heating alternative I can think of that costs less is a hot water bottle.

If you have a Truma system, be aware that the fans run slower if you don't set the temperature so high. It isn't a simple thermostat.
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Aye, I`ve noticed that with the fan on the Truma air blown system, it`s a strange beast. I`ve never ran out of battery power for the fan, even up to 4 days, but my leasure battery only powers the fan, water pump and my led lights.
 
The Carver 3000 gas fire in my Kontiki uses no battery power whatsoever, its not even connected to the battery. I can switch on the blown air manually if I wish but never do as the fire on its own is so powerful its not needed. Why did van heating change so that it had to eat into battery power?
 
quickest option

Put a ring on low on the gas cooker, or buy a small camping gas cooker with the small blue can , and single ring on low in a safe place, and make sure you have at least one active carbon monoxide detector........after 10 minutes my van warms up with this.......steve bristol
 
i wish i could put my Morco heater in this van, but it needs a hole about 12''x 8'' in the floor and space underneath, so looks like a Propex
 
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