| COACH FURNACE RECREATION? CAN A LESS POWER HUNGRY FAN BE USED? [message #340853] |
Sun, 10 February 2019 13:06  |
GatsbysCruise
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Registered: January 2017
Location: Waukegan, Illinois
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UGH! ! This is a second attempt at posting. The first one disappeared.
Apologies if you get two postings...
The Coach Furnace is a power pig. if you are booning and you turn the furnace on to heat overnight, you will most likely wake to a cold coach and dead battery.
It is the nature of the beast and the RV market has lived with this problem up to this very day. There has been no improvement.
To counter this RV owners, especially those that boon with no outside power source, have turned to unvented propane heaters, catalytic and blue flame.
Granted, these all work well, they make the interior toasty warm but can use up the oxygen and infiltrate your interior breathable air with carbon monoxide.
I am one of those, I have a buddy heater and it puts out a good heat for its size. I liked it a lot, up until the day it made a funny noise and bursted into
flames.
My heater had an internal fitting fail and it just started to leak propane gas while it was running.
I did post comments about this and I STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you only use this type of heater when you are there to monitor it and not run it when you are sleeping or away from the coach. It is potentially dangerous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noAHa0LfNcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh11VPUoKXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PA3oP6yJg
So back to the coach furnace. Has anyone attempted to replace the power hungry fans with a lower powered fan, like a computer type muffin fan? Is it possible?
If it has not been done yet, there must be a reason, hopefully OTHER than making money, as to why the industry has not attempted to remedy this problem.
Thanks for reading
GatsbysCruise. \
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