Questions on Discovery motorhome
Hello My son recently bought a Fleetwood Discovery Motorhome. The kicker is he is brand new to RV'ing so I have been trying to help as much as I can. However, there's a lot I'm not sure about when it...
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We have a 2012 Fleetwood Discovery 40G. So details will be different depending on model and year.
We have 2 zones for heating. The second zone has a heat pump and propane heater. Zone 1 is propane heat only. I find that the heat pump only works good down to about 40 degrees F. It will switch over automatically to use the furnace if the temperature is about 5 degrees below the set point. It will also do this even if it is warm outside. In this case it might use both the furnace and heat pump.
In ours, zone 2 is the furnace with a vent to warm the tanks. So, if it is cold you need to make sure that zone 2 is set so the furnace will come on and not just zone 1. The temperature sensor for zone 1 is too close to the front windows so it's temperature must be set colder than zone 2.
We have been below 10 degrees at night without any problem and without taking any special precautions other than disconnecting the water hose.
Some of this will also depend on how cold you let the RV get inside at night. We usually set zone 2 to 66 degrees, zone 1 I think is usually 60 degrees.
David
We have 2 zones for heating. The second zone has a heat pump and propane heater. Zone 1 is propane heat only. I find that the heat pump only works good down to about 40 degrees F. It will switch over automatically to use the furnace if the temperature is about 5 degrees below the set point. It will also do this even if it is warm outside. In this case it might use both the furnace and heat pump.
In ours, zone 2 is the furnace with a vent to warm the tanks. So, if it is cold you need to make sure that zone 2 is set so the furnace will come on and not just zone 1. The temperature sensor for zone 1 is too close to the front windows so it's temperature must be set colder than zone 2.
We have been below 10 degrees at night without any problem and without taking any special precautions other than disconnecting the water hose.
Some of this will also depend on how cold you let the RV get inside at night. We usually set zone 2 to 66 degrees, zone 1 I think is usually 60 degrees.
David
