RV LP Furnace Efficiency?
I'm trying to find the actual efficiency rating of our Suburban RV furnace... but so far have found no published specifications. Anyone have the real world efficiency rating of the typical RV LP fu...
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ktmrfs wrote:rhagfo wrote:SidecarFlip wrote:
You are high. Try 60-65 percent efficiency.
Actually closer to 80%, our 30,000 btu Surban is 30,000 I put, 27,600 btu output. We do have a Cheap Heat add on unit and on a 50 amp 240 volt it is 5,000 watts about 17,060 btu,’and heats our 32’ three season Copper Canyon very well.
that's 92%. not possible without it being a condensing furnace that has a water drain. so unless the suburban has a secondary heat exchanger and the water vapor is condensed to a liquid and the heat of vaporization extracted it's efficiency upper limit is around 80%
otherwise the upper limit on effiency is 80% or so, which would be 24,000 BTU output.
My bad!
Percentage was right, really transposed the numbers!:S
