On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Ian Webb wrote:

> Last year [my friend]  got the bright idea
> of sticking a ceramic heater in the van, plugged into a timer
> in the outlet, with the van hooked up to house current.
[snip]
> _He claimed_
> that even in the worst of weather, that little heater would do
> a good job of melting ice on the windows & heating up the interior.
> then he'd unplug & drive off, toasty & warm.

Hey, I can attest to the power of those forced-air ceramic heaters: they 
kick!  Crank it up, and the whole bus (even with the pop-top up!) gets to 
normal room temperature or higher in just a few minutes.  Rockin'!

'Course, you need to be hooked up to 110V AC to run it, so it doesn't do 
you much good on drives longer than a few minutes in really cold weather.

Tobin
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