Aqua Hot performance

[Eric]

You may be right. I probably wouldn't be comfortable with only 3 electric
heaters running in single digit temperatures. Actually, I never tried spending
any time in single digit temperatures after that one incident. In 20 degree
conditions I do run an additional electric heater in the front of the coach and
move my "silent" heater mid coach, but my kitchen and bathroom heater only comes
on occasionally, until I turn the heat up in the a.m.

My whole point was that my AquaHot is not capable of keeping my coach
comfortable in single digit temperatures in a manner that satisfies me. If I
ran all the AH heaters my bedroom would be too hot and the living area too cold.
The AH may deliver more BTU's in the bus, but they weren't where I wanted them.

When I look at the standard heater layout in my bus there is significantly less
heating capability up front than I would have preferred.


Eric Perplies
96' PT-42




--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "95 BMC 37" wrote:
>
> If your 3 electric toe kick heaters will keep the coach warm and they produce
a couple of thousand BTUs each, it only makes since that the A/H should do a
better job as they produce 2 times the heat, each. There must be a problem? I do
a lot of cold camping, last weekend it was 9 deg in Republic WA. and I keep the
coach at the temp I wanted. I have done a few things to improve the system. All
the hoses run along the side of the coach next to the exterior skin in the bays,
so I moved them a little and encased them in pipe insulation everywhere I could,
and two of the hoses ran outside to the front of the coach so I encased those in
pipe insulation. One thing I do know is that the burner runs a lot when it's
that cold, and diesel cost a lot, so I too heat with electric and supplement
with the A/H. I also made window inserts out of ¼" white packing foam stuff, and
keep the blinds down except in the sun.
> Marty Gregg
> 95 BMC 37
> Kennewick WA
>