crasster
Dallas
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Yeah we have used big buddy heaters, little buddy heaters, and regular plug in space heaters when our heaters have broke through the years.
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jauguston
Bellingham, WA
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Mine in the picture is a Mr Heater Buddy heater. It will run 5-6 hours on low on one of the little one pound tanks. I don't use them I have a propane specific high pressure hose running from the coach tank to the heater. Mr Heater makes a adapter fitting that will allow you to refill the one pound tanks from a 20 pound portable tank that works fine if you want to use the one pound tanks. Put the empty one pound tanks in your freezer for several hours before you fill them and you will get a good fill. It is silent and uses no battery power. Seven years of 12 months of the year camping using one and we are not dead yet(-: I very seldom turn on either of the coach furnaces.
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mlts22
Austin, Texas
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I have read reports of people pulling the heater fan, lubricating it with turbine oil/grease, clearing out the dust, putting it back in, and the fan noise not being an issue after that.
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Charltons
Battle Ground, WA
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We use a small "Vornada" electric heater and place it up on the table. Keeps us warm but doesnt run all night like when we set it in the floor. Doesn't make it to stuffy....
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wbrown62
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I use a small "milkhouse" electric "safe heat" heater. It works great and we use the low setting mostly in our 28 foot TT which is ample. The heater element does not get "red" hot so I don't worry too much about a fire. (This does not mean I am careless though). At any rate, works very well for us and the furnace never gets used.
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TeamCyBo
Woodstock
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jauguston wrote:If you are traveling from one place with power to the next place with power electric heaters will work fine. If you use non-serviced sites like a lot of State and National parks you need another plan. This is what we have done for the last 7 years with three different RV's. This is our previous one. We do the same in the one we have now. The hose goes to the built in coach propane tank. We use non-serviced State Park campgrounds 99% of the time.
Jim
We have one of the Mr Heaters also and love it. My question is where did you get your hose? We are looking for one that we can plug into our quick connect line that feeds off of our propane tanks.
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Bo
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Mark and Linda
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Two years ago we went camping in our PUP in February....first trip out in our new camper. The furnace kicked on all the time and we then realized that we needed another source of heat. I went to Lowe's and bought a ceramic heater with a remote control...now..going to use it in our TT to supplement the heat if needed.
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