Heating a Tab400 (newb question)

Jon

Planning first cold weather trip and have never had to heat the camper before.  Might be a dumb question, but if I'll have shore power, is it better to use the Alde, Dometic, or both?

4ncar

The heat pump will produce heat quicker, but the Alde will be silent and warmer....

Sharon_is_SAM

Some owners turn on both.  The Dometic takes the chill off faster, then just make sure you set the temp high enough on the Alde thermostat to keep the Alde running.  Turn off the Dometic and let the Alde run.

ChrisFix

Does anyone have experience running both the Coolcat Heatpump and the Alde on Electric 2K watts setting? Does that work with 30A service? Seems it would be close...particularly if you have a campground with sagging voltage like I've experienced a couple of times.
Of course you could always run the Alde from propane while running the Coolcat too.
Just wondering...

Denny16

I tried this on a 30amp connection, worked without any issue.  I turned in the Alde first, let it warm up a bit, then turned on the CoolCat to heat.  Once the CoolCat had the chill off, the Alde was adding heat, so I turned off the CoolCat, which had been running around 30 minutes.
cheers

Jon

Thanks everyone!