We don't need overnight heating. Never use it afloat or ashore, even in mid winter (unless at hotel's expense!).
Eberspacher is noisy, uses lots of battery and cokes up if run at anything less than full power. It also seems to make our aft cabin like a dry sauna, and the rest of the boat luke warm. And if we close the aft cabin vent to redirect the heat to the other outlets, it overheats.
But you've made me think though. I've not actually even tried running it on anything less than full whack, and only _then_ closing the aft cabin vent. And a de-coke every year wouldn't be all that expensive perhaps. And on less than full, perhaps the noise is more bearable also.
But then again I also see an additional heater of some sort as a very important backup.
But then there's always the lamps for backup. They kick out 1kW each.
Still loving the look of that Taylors 079D though - think I'm in love
But I can't think where we'd find to install the header tank.
Decisions decisions...
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