Improving the heat in 5th wheel.
I have a 2013 Sandpiper 365saq. It's 43' long has 4 slides with 9' ceilings and the 35k btu heater is dismal at best. The warmest it could get when it was 30degrees outside is 60 degrees inside. The...
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There is an alternate source of heat that might help out to supplement your propane furnace.
This is the concept...
I have been looking into using this idea to actually replace my propane furnace in my OFF-ROAD POPUP. The propane heater is way to much heat for the popup, has its unique smells, makes a horrible noise, and the 12VDC FAN runs down my batteries in a quick order.
My concept might look something like this using PEX lines from LOWES.
How this might help your situation would be to run baseboard hot water registers around the walls , in the bath room and other floor level locations... Some of these registers can be equipment with small axial type fans... The hot water comes from the 6-gallon hot water heater. Might be something else to investigate to get more heat around the floors. Using the Hot water heater as the source makes this work both at shore power locations as well as running off your propane to heat up the water and batteries to run the fan if needed camping off the power grid.
You could have multiple zones doing this...
Might be worth some reading on the internet. ALot of big motorhomes are using this type of clean heat.
Just some of my thoughts
Roy Ken
This is the concept...
I have been looking into using this idea to actually replace my propane furnace in my OFF-ROAD POPUP. The propane heater is way to much heat for the popup, has its unique smells, makes a horrible noise, and the 12VDC FAN runs down my batteries in a quick order.
My concept might look something like this using PEX lines from LOWES.
How this might help your situation would be to run baseboard hot water registers around the walls , in the bath room and other floor level locations... Some of these registers can be equipment with small axial type fans... The hot water comes from the 6-gallon hot water heater. Might be something else to investigate to get more heat around the floors. Using the Hot water heater as the source makes this work both at shore power locations as well as running off your propane to heat up the water and batteries to run the fan if needed camping off the power grid.
You could have multiple zones doing this...
Might be worth some reading on the internet. ALot of big motorhomes are using this type of clean heat.
Just some of my thoughts
Roy Ken
