Traveling with the furnace running
Have a small fifth wheel, very little insulation, heading to FL in February from MA. I know some folks shut off the gas while traveling, I'm not of tha camp and have no problem running the fridge ...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:stetwood wrote:
When sitting still at 15 degrees the temperature in windless conditions is 15 degrees. Traveling at 60 mph, the windchill is like -11 degree. Therefore your furnace will need to work as if the outside temp is -11 degrees when traveling.
Wind chill does not affect inanimate objects. Only living creatures 'feel' the affect of wind chill.
The effect of wind chill is to increase the rate of heat loss and reduce any warmer objects to the ambient temperature more quickly. It cannot, however, reduce the temperature of these objects below the ambient temperature, no matter how great the wind velocity.
Wind chill doesn't affect an inanimate object like it does a human, but a warm object of any kind exposed to a strong airflow will absolutely cool off much faster than it would in still air.
There is also the issue of heat loss due to air being forced in and out of the RV by the highway speed wind it's exposed to.
