Winter & electric heaters

[Ryan Wright]

Thanks for the replies, folks. I dug into the heaters and the heating
elements & fans are actually working fine now that they've been
vacuumed out. The thermostats on two of them are flaky, though. I'm
going to see about bypassing the cheap, built in thermostats with a
relay and putting together a zoned HVAC control system where I can use
setpoints, etc from a proper thermostat.

It does look like these are it as far as high wattage heaters go.
These aren't made anymore and nobody else makes 120 volt heaters
anywhere near 2000w, not that I can find, anyway. So, for those of us
with the eighties coaches, take care of these heaters, because when
you have to replace 'em you're going to lose 500-1000 watts of heating
potential per heater.

-Ryan
'86 PT-40 8V92
Tri-Cities, WA

On 8/19/07, Curt Sprenger wrote:
>
> Ryan,
>
> I'd pull out one of the electric heaters and fiddle with it. You might find
> they can be brought back to life. Keep in mind that they do not put out high
> air flow, actually a slight air flow seems about right. Others that have
> fiddeled with these heaters will chime in. Good luck.
>