Furnace heat not working when on shore power
Not sure if this has been addressed here previously. We purchase a new Keystone Carbon 364 this year and found that the furnace only produces hot air when on propane. As shown by the thermostat ...
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CObroker wrote:
It definately eats the propane, lol. The batteries are fine, we usually boondock pretty high up in the mtns where it drops into the 20's and 30's most nights. The heater runs quite a bit.
Was just hoping that for the few times early and late in the season, when we happen to be at campgrounds, that there was an electric option since it looked like it from the thermostat.
We will just use a portable electric heater to augment the propane in those situations.
It's all good!
it takes a lot of heat to keep a small sized enclosure warm, trailer, house doesn't make much difference. One there is lots of surface area to radiate heat even though there isn't much volume. Second, lots of windows don't help.
So a 35K BTU heater in a 200 sq ft trailer is more stressed than a 80KBTU furnace in a 2400 square foot house.
10X difference in sq ft, but only about 3x difference in furnace. and the 85KBTU will keep the house warm below 0F, but the trailer will struggle at 32F.
