Wolf Creek 850 roll over story

anutami wrote:
One of the major complaints that I can't really fathom especially with the Arctic fox is the furnace Northwood puts in their campers. How do you call their campers 4 season with NO heat in the cab over, bathroom and basement?

It's not the problem of "the furnace Northwood puts in their campers" it's where it's located in the AFs: In the slide out (except the 865). With it being there, you can't run ducting anywhere else in the camper.

I was a 10.75 year owner of an AF811. Camping in colder weather, the cabover does get cold at the head of the bed. It wasn't until about 2 years ago that I solved the problem by setting a small fan on the stove top to blow air towards the cabover. That trick only worked when I had power hookups, which was rare. Even more rare was camping in cold weather.

The cold cabover of my 811 is what kept me from buying an 865. I can't imagine camping in an 865 in cold weather. The cabover has a tunnel leading to it with bathroom on one side and fridge on the other side, with no direct flow of air to the bed from the furnace. There's also no place to put a small fan like I used on my stove top to blow air the bed.

A popular mod for people in the AF truck camper forum is to upgrade to a digital T-stat and wire it so you can run the basement air circulation fan with the fan switch on the T-stat. That allows you to run the fan all the time to keep things warmer in the basement. This can't be done to later model campers though because the T-stat controls both the furnace AND the A/C as of at least two years ago, maybe as far back as the 2017 model year.