Heater
I need ideas and suggestions for an auxiliary electric heater for our motor home..The designer decided that it does not need any furnace ducts anywhere past midway ..2 in bedroom,1 in bathroom and 1 i...
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Many RV's have a air duct that runs under a couch towards the drivers compartment, and that is about 4" diameter, and will carry about 100 cubic feet per minute. I guess that you need one more vent going forward?
You should be able to buy a 4" wye at a hardware store, and connect into the existing air ducts. Then run something like flexible dryer hose to the location that you need more heat. I guess if there is a slide out in the way, it will not work all that well. The manufacture should have put a floor vent in the basement someplace, where there is little traffic, (to avoid people stepping on it, or dirt getting inside from your shoes). It can be under a chair or couch, the heat will end up in the living room somehow. . .
If you spend a lot of time at campgrounds with hookups, try running 2-3 small 1,500 watt electric heaters on low heat output. Just make sure that you are not plugging into a inverter output receptacle, as you might trip a fuse on the inverter.
So if you have some receptacles that run on the inverter, don't use them for a heater line.
Have fun camping!
Fred.
You should be able to buy a 4" wye at a hardware store, and connect into the existing air ducts. Then run something like flexible dryer hose to the location that you need more heat. I guess if there is a slide out in the way, it will not work all that well. The manufacture should have put a floor vent in the basement someplace, where there is little traffic, (to avoid people stepping on it, or dirt getting inside from your shoes). It can be under a chair or couch, the heat will end up in the living room somehow. . .
If you spend a lot of time at campgrounds with hookups, try running 2-3 small 1,500 watt electric heaters on low heat output. Just make sure that you are not plugging into a inverter output receptacle, as you might trip a fuse on the inverter.
So if you have some receptacles that run on the inverter, don't use them for a heater line.
Have fun camping!
Fred.
