Truma Heaters

[Knaus]

Hi

Does anyone know if you can have your Truma heater converted to use both gas and electric. I know they make one which does both, but just wondered if the gas only one could be converted.

[Terrytraveller]

Hi Knaus,

 

Yes you can - but it's a bit expensive around £250 for all the bits plus fitting, you might as well get a smallish convector heater with a switchable blower from Argos or the like.

 

Have a look at

http://www.trumauk.com/files/documents/heating08.pdf

and for good measure

http://www.arcsystems.biz/manuals/%20SPL3002.PDF

 

save the second link pdf onto your hard drive as it's an excellent manual, and you will need it one day I can assure you.

 

Regards Terry

[Robinhood]

The Truma convector space heaters can have electric heating retro-fitted via the 'Ultraheat' add-on (parts around £150).

 

Truma combi units can have an electric collar added, but this only provides electric water heating, not space heating (parts around £200).

 

HTH

[Knaus]

Hi

Thanks for your info. I do have a fan heater which we often use.

What I wanted was to be able to heat the water by electric when we are hooked up to electric on site to save the gas.

It looks a bit expensive, so will have to give it some consideration.

 

[ron.]

Try asking Truma.

[Patricia]

I have a gas/electric heater but if it is very cold the electric takes forever to warm up unless you can use it at 2Kw (mine is switchable from 0.5Kw, 1.0Kw and 2.0Kw) which is too power hungry for some hook-ups. My electric heater, I think, is a separate unit from the fire and, again, has to be supplemented by the gas heater if a decent shower is to be had.

[Derek Uzzell]

This has come up before. See:

 

http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=8563&posts=13

 

The 230V 'heating collar' kit can be retro-fitted only to Trumatic C-3402, C-4002 and C-6002 combination air/water heaters. As Robinhood has already explained, the kit provides 230V water-heating but not 230V air-heating.

 

The Trumatic C-6002EH appliance allows water and air heating via gas and/or 230V, but a C-3402, C-4002 or C-6002 can't be modified to provide a similar capability.

 

Truma's latest, completely redesigned, combination heaters (confusingly named "Combi") come in gas-only form (Combi-4 and Combi-6) or gas /230V (Combi-4E and Combi-6E), with the 'E' variants providing gas and/or 230V air and water heating. Realistically, it's not practicable to convert a gas-only Combi into its 'E' equivalent.

 

There's also now a Combi-D that's essentially a diesel-fuelled version of a Combi-6. As far as I'm aware there is no diesel/230V version of this heater.