Cold Weather Warm Up
Hi all, Cold weather warm up time. This morning at 4 a.m. I went out, started the generator, plugged in the block heater and two electric heaters, and turned on the furnace. The ambient temperature...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi Phil,
I think you could special order the largest furnace available. But oversize may lead to rapid cycling. The duct work might need a (difficult) upgrade for the larger size to cycle normally.
The only time having a bigger furnace would help is when warming up from stone bone cold. That is an unusual occurrence.
There is a hotel next door to my apartment condo, so I may ask if I can park and plug in, for a fee, in the future.
In the last year I've filled the propane tank twice. Mostly used for running the fridge. The tank is fairly small.
Don .... aren't the more BTU's the better in an RV's propane furnace when talking about drycamping in 0 degree and below outside temperatures?
When push comes to shove, I'll take quick-propane-furnace-cycling any day over on-all-the-time operation in super cold weather -> with the RV's occupants maybe still sitting around nearly freezing because their furnace's base BTU capacity is too small.
I guess what the RV world needs are automatic variable output propane furnaces (like our stick house heat pump) so one can enjoy a large capacity RV propane furnace that handles any cold condition anytime in their RV while at the same time having the furnace adapt automatically to how much it needs to cycle ON/OFF versus quality of RV insulation versus outside temperatures any given time, place, or season.
