Furnace Fan Only Mode?
Hello All, Starting to prepare for my first winter in my trailer and have been thinking about heating. I am full timing right now and would like to use electric as my primary heat source to save my...
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Traver8 wrote:The amount of heat that this mod would put into the underbelly is so slight as to make it a waste of time and effort.
Hello All,
Starting to prepare for my first winter in my trailer and have been thinking about heating. I am full timing right now and would like to use electric as my primary heat source to save my propane. I have a heated underbelly that is warmed by the furnace.
What I have been thinking is that if I can use the furnace in a fan only mode to circulate the heated air created by my electric heater this should transfer heat to the underbelly without using the propane.
What do you think? Anyone made a mod to their furnace to use the fan only?
Thanks for your feedback.
Terry
Your propane furnace puts HOT air into the underbelly... Your proposed mod would put ROOM temperature air into it.
Even most heated underbellys don't work as well as many imagine.
Mostly because the insulation is lacking. I have never seen a TT that addressed the frame rail heat sink issue. Two steel I beams running the length of the TT uninsulated and conducting cold into the underbelly.
After my experience of near zero temps I January, I found the limitations of my TT.
I totally disassembled my underbelly,and put heat tape on ALL waterlines with insulation, improved the heat vents going into it, and super insulated the underbelly, including the frame rails.
This January will be the test, as to just how effective all this was... I am sure it will be quite a improvement.
