[Nebster]

Our coach came with a half and half, swirly mix of carpet and marble/tile. This is a no-go with a big, fuzzy dog, plus we wanted to lighten up the coach anyway. We had Newell replace the floor with new tile, and in so doing they installed new floor heat mats throughout the coach.

The old Silverleaf system in our coach can only drive one zone of floor heat, and it can only do so via ten pulse-modulated, arbitrary settings ("0" to "9"). Since I want to remove Silverleaf anyway, and because Newell's only alternative was their Intrepid system they use on the new coaches (not an option, either practically, financially, or functionally for me), I had them simply pull all the floor heat power drops to the inverter bay as well.



Then, these floor mats were wired up into three zones: salon, bedroom, (rear) bath. Each zone is connected to a Nuheat Signature thermostat, and those are mounted on the front ceiling of the inverter bay -- because I am literally out of wall space the whole way around, and because in the event we don't have connectivity, someone may need to manually go outside and adjust floor heat settings if he or she doesn't like the defaults.

The beauty of this "solution" is that it didn't require any expensive and tedious runs for new thermostats in each area, and everything is easy to access and set on anyone's mobile device or via a browser:



Total floor heating is about 2500W, so this is another heat source that we can run off the battery, but in real life we probably won't. Diesel is still king for heating, I think.