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Let's talk furnace usage for a minute. We have rarely run our furnace full time overnight and never full time during the day. The only time I recall running the furnace overnight was when the overnight temps got down to the mid 20s so I set it for 60 overnight. We don't camp in those conditions anymore.
In our controlled experiment 24 hour campout described above, it got down to 45 overnight and hit highs of 60 the day before. The temps inside were fine when we went inside, took showers and crawled in bed. We rarely hang around inside in thr evening but usually outside around the campfire after dinner until we shower and go to bed.
The inside temps when we went to bed were in the mid to upper 60s. When we woke up about 7:00 the inside temps were in the mid 50s and outside was 45. Yes that was chilly, but in bed overnight with a heavy comforter on both sides with our dog on my wife's side and I added a throw blanket in the wee hours, we were very comfortable.
When I got up I turned the furnace on and fired up the coffee pot. When I turned the furnace off about ten minutes later when the coffee was ready it was in the upper 60s inside which was fine. We hung out and sipped coffee for maybe an hour until I went out and grilled some breakfast sandwiches outside about 8:00. By then the sun was on the coach and inside temps climbed to 70 and above all morning.
The point of this long disertation is that you don't need much heat inside a MH as long as you hang out around the campfire before bed and just use the furnace to "take the chill off" while you make coffee in the morning. If it were only 60 inside when we woke up, making stove top drip coffee would have warmed it up fine.
I was rather impressed with the insulation in the Axis.
David
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