Date:         Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:34:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Steve Russell <thenewf1@TELUS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Steve Russell <thenewf1@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: How much heat?
Comments: To: jens.jakob.andersen@POST.DK
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Hi Volks,
We live in British Columbia and we have travelled all over in our westy in
winter and very cold temps. I guess it really depends on how comfortable you
want to be and what your going to bring. When we bought our '84, we
specifically looked for one with the stock gas heater. This thing is
awesome, it's almost instant heat and even though it cuts out after 12
minutes, with two people and a dog in there it stays warm for quite some
time. If you have an auxillary battery and some way of charging it you could
actually keep running this sucker as long as you want, but remember you are
using up gas
Anyway we find this good for our purposes, but we sleep in sleeping bags and
don't run heat at night.
Steve ('84 Westy - Moaning Myrtle)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Jakob Andersen" <jens.jakob.andersen@POST.DK>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 1:01 AM
Subject: How much heat?


Hi

I find people telling me that a BN-2 heater will never be enough for the
Vanagon?

So it inspires to ask y'all with additional heaters:

* How many watts do you have?
* How cold is your climate?
* What is enough?

Lets make a poll and get factual wiser ;-)

Happy heating

JJ