Propane furnace sending heat to outside vent
Hi, Running our Suburban propane furnace it seems like the unit is pushing as much (or more) heat out of it's exterior vent as it is to the interior vents. At the vents the flow is a gentle convect...
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time2roll wrote:
I just want to warm some coolant and move the waste heat to the battery.
Have to modify the connecting tailpiece to have some coolant absorb the heat and then pump to the battery.
Interesting approach. The exhaust is intermittent, so storing the heat in the "coolant" would address that, but you also then have two transfers instead of one. Hmmmm.
I would have the battery bank in a "little red wagon" to get it closer to the furnace exhaust, but there are all sorts of ways to do this if you were more of a full timer in one spot long enough to make it worth the bother.
I agree the furnace noise is the greater problem. Hate it when the furnace comes on and you can't hear the TV/DVD.
