Ditching the propane heater for an electric
I picked up a 30 Springdale to use as a temp home while my house is being built. I pulled out the wall between the dining area and the queen bedroom, removed the bed and small couch, to make an open l...
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pnichols wrote:KA4EBU wrote:
My rear furnace is 42,000 btu's. A gallon of propane will run the heater continuosly for 2.1 hours.
Hmmm ... did you mean a gallon of propane or a pound of propane? A gallon every 2.1 hours seems awfully high.
He got the numbers right...Notice the word continuously
He means total run time to use all the BTUs in one gallon
It's got to be desperately cold for the furnace to run non stop
Normal use they cycle on off, so that run time is spread over a larger time span, and many of us the furnace is a bit smaller and uses less lp
no body is talking about a 5000 BTU FORCED air furnace
Which is a ridiculous idea
The comparison is the removal of the RV l.p. FORCED air and a 5100 BTU electric
Radiant heat is good for directional heat in a local area, convection heat will heat a larger area, but you won't feel it as quickly
