Aqua Hot performance

[Wayne Kotila]

Marty insulating the hoses is a good idea and insulating the windows, I think those single pane windows are like large heat exchangers radiating cold into the rv.I took my inside glass surface temp using an infared temp sensor when it was about 22 deg F outside, the inside glass temp was 38 deg F. I had made a polycarbonate plastic storm window to test on one window in the coach and the inside tempon the window with that stormadded was 15 deg warmer (53 degF).

Wayne kotila

96PT42

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From: 95 BMC 37
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, February 28, 2011 10:35:25 AM
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Aqua Hot performance

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