Wave 3 heater and propane tank
I'll be making a short weekend trip and will need heat for a couple of nights but won't have an electric power hookup or be able to use the generator. Was thinking about getting a Wave 3 heater and ju...
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RoyB wrote:
JFET - It is something like a propane smell - I'm sure my furnace is doing what it is suppose to do but I can always tell when I am near a propane furnace heat source.. I'm sure I am not describing it right...
I don't smell anything like this using the automobile hot water heaters...
Roy Ken
It might be that your furnace hasn't run long enough to burn off the manufacturing oil on the sheet metal it is made out of.
When we installed the Atwood furnace in our build, we had to run it for several hours with a fan blowing the furnace output toward the open door....it smelled horrible and set off the smoke detector. After a few hours everything had burned off and now the only way you can tell the furnace is on is the fan noise and the fact that the inside of the camper has gone up to 80 degrees in a matter of minutes.
