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wrybread
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Jun 20, 2016

Ideas for a more electrically efficient heater?

My furnace kills my batteries because of its blower. It's older (1989), does anyone have any experience swapping it out with something more efficient? Or any other ideas? I may just wall mount a ca...
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MrWizard
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Jun 20, 2016
it takes a xxx amount of energy to move yyy amount of air
you can get a furnace with lower btu and smaller fan motor

or you can eliminate all fan power use by getting the Wave cat heater

thats what we did, use to have a wave 6, now have a wave 8

we are 34ft DP, the bed sets over the engine compartment and gets COLD

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