Heating · Autoterm add-on

Your Autoterm, on the panel

For Autoterm 2D and 4D heaters. Adds schedules, timers and readable fault information - and an Auto Heat mode that keeps adjusting the heater to maintain temperature rather than leaving it on one fixed setting.

£125 including VAT

You will need: A SavvyVan3 panel and an Autoterm 2D or 4D heater. Everything the add-on needs in software is already on the panel.

The SavvyVan3 Autoterm heating screen showing a 20°C target against 28.4°C actual, with fan and diesel indicators

What it does

  • Auto Heat

    Choose the temperature you want and the panel manages the output to reach it and hold it, easing off as the van warms. Kinder than picking a setting and living with it - and quieter, since it runs gently for longer instead of starting at full power over and over.

  • Ten levels, if you would rather choose

    Ten fan levels and ten burner levels, set by hand whenever you like. Fan only, with no burner, is the one people forget - useful for shifting stale air or drying the van out.

  • A week of schedule, and a timer

    Warm for getting up, warm again for coming back in. Or set the timer for an hour and forget about it.

  • Faults in words

    If the heater reports a fault, the screen says what it is instead of leaving you to look up a flash code in the dark.

  • Keeps the heater you have

    It works with the connections already on the heater, so nothing has to be taken out and refitted.

The Autoterm interface module - a small square black case with the autoterm logo on the front and a white connector on one edge, shown beside the plug and flying lead that join it to the heater

The numbers

Heaters Autoterm 2D and 4D
Connection Wireless to the panel

Fitting it

How hard
Straightforward
How long
An hour

It plugs into the connections already on the heater. Auto Heat needs a temperature probe somewhere in the living space - every panel comes with one, and a second is £8.

What else you will need

  • An Autoterm 2D or 4D heater already fitted
  • The plug that currently goes to your Autoterm controller
  • A temperature probe in the living space for Auto Heat - one comes with every panel, a second is £8

Not compatible with SavvyVan Lite v2.1 panels. Worth knowing now rather than after it arrives.

If you have a SavvyVan Lite

The Autoterm module does not work with the SavvyVan Lite v2.1 panel - the previous generation cannot talk to it. It is a panel age thing rather than anything you have done wrong, and the fix is a SavvyVan3.

The instructions, before you buy

Every guide we write is published - read it first and decide whether it looks like your kind of afternoon.

Not sure whether it fits your van? Ask us. There is no such thing as a daft question here - half of ours started the same way.

  • ECE R10.9 EMC Tested

    Tested for electromagnetic compatibility to the UN vehicle standard - so it plays nicely with everything else in your van.

  • Made in Britain

    Designed and built in Yorkshire, using UK components wherever we can.

  • NCC Approved Supplier

    Recognised by the National Caravan Council, the trade body for the UK leisure vehicle industry.

  • Motorhome Matt Approved

    Independently reviewed and approved by one of the best-known voices in UK van life.

  • FSB member

    Members of the Federation of Small Businesses - because that is exactly what we are.

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