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Reply #25 –
Quote from: craneman –
We are dry camping and heat strips or a heat pump would be almost useless.

A) A SOB coach was kicked out of here for running 24/7 heat pump; very noisy! B) Friends of ours with a Blue Bird that had Aqua Hot dumped 10CBs after it failed. Moral? Service, service service!  ^.^d  I'll take what I got, but wish we had heat strips.
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Re: Value of a heat pump/strip added to the AC...

Reply #26 –
I have the Atwood 15,000 unit and find the heat pump well worth the additional cost.
Never can have too many heat options.
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Re: Value of a heat pump/strip added to the AC...

Reply #27 –

We have heat strips in both of our roof air units and have never used them (actually I ran them once to see if they worked, and they did...)  Too noisy and the draft from the fans makes it feel colder.  We don't have Aquahot, but we use a couple of electric floor heaters when we're plugged in to shore power - a cube heater and a stand heater, and I have a couple of plug-in thermostats that make the plug-in heater temperature control much better.
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When we're boondocking, we mostly use two Olympian catalytic heaters which use very little propane and no electricity, but they're a pain to light and don't have thermostat controls, so one of the Mister Heater style units is on the list. 

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Reply #28 –
Mike I think you may be able to add heat strips....l
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Re: Value of a heat pump/strip added to the AC...

Reply #30 –
Guess I am some sort of "prepper". Spent 45 years at sea, where if something broke, you could not go to your local dd or cat or cummins dealer, to fix it, or buy a new one at walmart. So I like redundancy. Sure my aqua-hot will probably not break, and my heat pumps/strips  will probably work, and If it doesn't I can always get a hotel. So I have aqua-hot, heatpumps, and cube heaters, and a mr heater, just in case.  Spent Hurricane Ike on Galveston Island. Guess who supplied power from his bus generator to all his neighbours for their refrigerators, cell phone chargers and tv's?  Just look at the news lately, a whole bunch of "it can't happen to me" people wandering around with stunned looks on their faces.
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Re: Value of a heat pump/strip added to the AC...

Reply #31 –
Jcus your too old school, probably have wisdom, a savings account, and obviously know how to weather a storm you damn well know is coming. And don't build a house six feet above tide level in a hurricane zone.. What you lack is the whining ability.
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