Furnace on shore power
Can I use my furnace in my motorhome without having the gas on when its plugged into shore power?
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Kayteg1 wrote:Bobbo wrote:Kayteg1 wrote:
Nice way of making simple things sound complicated ;)
Yes, but at least it was not wrong.
Sayz who?
The furnace, while having hookups is using 120V that is converted to 12V.
Still the source of power is 120V.
Sayz who? The furnace manual. Look at page 3.
The "source of power" may be 120v, but the furnace only sees 12v of that.
Following your "source of power" rationale, they are actually 12,000v RVs.
12v to furnace from converter. 120v to converter from house breaker panel. 240v to house breaker panel from utility company step down transformer. 12,000v to utility company step down transformer. So, the "source of power" is actually 12,000v.
You can't trace power back that way.
The furnace is 12v. If you don't believe me, hook up a 120v power wire to your furnace and report back what happens.
