Hi Doreen, has your van got it's own heating system?Where are you heading
CHAUSSON
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Gender: Location: Tipperary Posts: 6813 Registered: 02 / 2012 My Motorhome: Knaus Sport Ti 700 UFB Silverline Base Vehicle: Renault Master 150 dci Quickshift
Hi Doreen, I see you are also from the Premier County, The Tipp member count is finally beginning to rise on the where are you from Roll count. Have you voted yet?
To answer your question we use a 600W oil filled radiator and find it great and safe, we bought a 400W and took it back again, it just wasn't' good enough.
mad max
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Gender: Location: Co Galway Age: 98 Posts: 5550 Registered: 04 / 2013 My Motorhome: Base Vehicle:
Doreen,
If you haven't decided on the heater by NYE make the trip anyway and see how the vans own heater fares out, as our vans own heater is more than enough for us,
PS...Keep a 1/2 bottle of brandy under the sink just incase
van heating is more than enough for us too
if on hook up use heating on gas to get temp quickly then switch to electric to maintain
never needed extra heating even under 6 inches of snow at la mon last year !
Helgahobby
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Gender: Location: Bleary Craigavon County Down.... Age: 73 Posts: 1841 Registered: 07 / 2014 My Motorhome: Base Vehicle:
Yes I agree with all of the above, the heating systems on board are designed for all extremes. Mark I'm the same, have to sneak up and reduce the thermostat regularly. Best advice from me would be to leave well enough alone. If you're in doubt at all you could bring a small blow heater, so long as you're on EHU. Then again, I don't believe there's a safe alternative with gas.
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Gender: Location: kildare Posts: 7468 Registered: 10 / 2011 My Motorhome: Dethleffs Advantage Base Vehicle: Fiat 2.3
Gender: Location: Tipperary Posts: 6813 Registered: 02 / 2012 My Motorhome: Knaus Sport Ti 700 UFB Silverline Base Vehicle: Renault Master 150 dci Quickshift
We have a van conversion and this has a Diesel Heating system which is very good but if heat needed when we have electric hook up we were recommended the Swiss Lux Quartz Heater like this one
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-…1121042535
Quite a few caravan dealers seem to sell this brand so you should be able to find one local to you
We have found it to be very effective and it can be safely be used in the Van for two reasons
1. it is not powerful enough to trip the site electric (unless like me you switch on the kettle and a couple of other things OK it was swmbo used her hairdryer))
it is however very quick to heat up the van on 800 and we have always had to turn it down to 400
2. It has a safety feature that it will switch off if knocked over
If you would like a negative that is it doesn't have a thermo setting.
We did try a fan heater but I found that seemed to be not very user friendly and the heat gave us a sore throat as it seemed so dry heat.
It is also quite slim so fairly easy to store which is important when you have a small van like us
David
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We always an oil filled rad as there is no naked heat element which can scorch things if left too close
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