Is my furnace working correctly?
This weekend we ran the Furnace for the first time. It's a 2015 Radiance 28SSQB. Really like the camper, but I am not sure about the heat. There are vents all over the place, but when we had the he...
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Unlike a house where you can adjust the vents in each room with a forced air furnace system, a camper does not put dampers on the vents or in the heat ducts. They are all wide open. Air movement is going to take the path of least resistance, and the first hole air can come out of it the one that gets the heat.
Put a pillow over the vent closest to furnace, and I bet you'll feel the air and the heat every where else. You'll need to figure out a way to regulate each hole in the floor to adjust an even flow.
Some say you should never cover a vent. Hogwash! The air out-put size (square inches), only needs to be the same same size as the air in-put on the furnace. In a house, the intake is usually fairly large, 20x30 inches or even more. The vents in each room are, maybe 6x8 inches, maybe 8x10. 3 - 8x10 square inch vents would add to 24x30 inches, that's almost equal to the air intake size. So, as long as you kept 3 vents open, you furnace would always have 100% air flow. Open any more air vents in your house and the flow begins to divide up, becoming less and less forceful.
Same is true in your camper.
OK, forget my ramblings, even I'm getting a headache! Just put the pillow over the vent closes to the furnace and see if you get air in the other vents.
EDIT:
And remember, if your camper has the "Arctic Package" some of the heat is going under your camper. (I'm not saying the Arctic Package works... I'm just saying some of the heat is going under the floor).
Put a pillow over the vent closest to furnace, and I bet you'll feel the air and the heat every where else. You'll need to figure out a way to regulate each hole in the floor to adjust an even flow.
Some say you should never cover a vent. Hogwash! The air out-put size (square inches), only needs to be the same same size as the air in-put on the furnace. In a house, the intake is usually fairly large, 20x30 inches or even more. The vents in each room are, maybe 6x8 inches, maybe 8x10. 3 - 8x10 square inch vents would add to 24x30 inches, that's almost equal to the air intake size. So, as long as you kept 3 vents open, you furnace would always have 100% air flow. Open any more air vents in your house and the flow begins to divide up, becoming less and less forceful.
Same is true in your camper.
OK, forget my ramblings, even I'm getting a headache! Just put the pillow over the vent closes to the furnace and see if you get air in the other vents.
EDIT:
And remember, if your camper has the "Arctic Package" some of the heat is going under your camper. (I'm not saying the Arctic Package works... I'm just saying some of the heat is going under the floor).
