Espar type heater to replace older furnace.
I was just wondering if anyone has chaged out there propane furnace for a diesel type. I am thinking of doing this as my propane furnce is getting old, uses a lot of propane, uses a lot of power, is ...
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HMS Beagle wrote:
On the other hand, no way a diesel Espar type is going to be 90%. To get into the 90s a heater has to be condensing, and they are not even close to that.
That is definitely true, but if you install it inside, so no exchanged heat is going outside like factory heaters do, the only loss will be on exhaust.
TC do have very lousy efficiency to start with, so fuel efficiency would be at the bottom of the list.
Going from "racket" blower to quiet one and from huge temperature spikes to constant heat would be on top.
Fact that you can run diesel heater overnight on single battery is important too.
Not even saying that having diesel truck you already have good supply of diesel fuel, when carrying propane for week on the snow will take a trailer.
