[bobyjo]

Since the price of LPG has gone up just like gasoline prices,
I need to convert my gas heater to electric heating.
Does anyone mfg a converting kit?
Does anyone know where to contact a company about this?

[donf]

I know on no conversion from Gas to Electric conversion kits. There is no easy way to migrate from gas heat to electric heat as a DIY project.

But before you jump out on the bridge here, you need to think about why you want to do that. The cost of electricity just like gas has also rizen.

Do you have enough room in your Main Panel to put a enough breakers and supporting branch circuit to support a Electric forced air heat. Will you have to bost your service higher?

You will have to add several high amperage circuits to supply the heat package. You will need to make sure you have enough supply from the Power Co. and space available on your main panel to carry the Branch Circuits to the heating package. At the least you will need a permit to do the electrical work. Because of the high amperage of these new circuits and all the main panel work, make sure the installation of the heating unit is fully installed

Take some time and read up on electric heater systems.

[bobyjo]

I have a full sized Central A/H system. Four Ton AC unit and the furnice appliance is plenty large is size and would be no problem in installing & removing the lpg unit and gas valve etc. I have seen some electric heating systems and most have a 220v pretty high amp heating unit, strips in place of the gas burner. My gas burner has one tube (case iron) burner rung. I haven't measured the length of the gas burner. Room is not a problem and believe me, our CO-OP sends a graph of wattage used last year and this allows the overage or underage of the electricity used. Since we are on a CO-OP service, we get a very good rate on elect usage. Actually there are some months this spring that the cost of elect is less than what I used last year. The cost of a kilowatt hour has gone up for sure. Not nearly compared to LPG service. LPG is going rate of close to $3.00 per gal, then they charge a delivery charge depending on how far the driver has to drive to get to my home.

I know on no conversion from Gas to Electric conversion kits. There is no easy way to migrate from gas heat to electric heat as a DIY project.

But before you jump out on the bridge here, you need to think about why you want to do that. The cost of electricity just like gas has also rizen.

Do you have enough room in your Main Panel to put a enough breakers and supporting branch circuit to support a Electric forced air heat. Will you have to bost your service higher?

You will have to add several high amperage circuits to supply the heat package. You will need to make sure you have enough supply from the Power Co. and space available on your main panel to carry the Branch Circuits to the heating package. At the least you will need a permit to do the electrical work. Because of the high amperage of these new circuits and all the main panel work, make sure the installation of the heating unit is fully installed

Take some time and read up on electric heater systems.