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Originally Posted by Trav59k
Richard first off “Merry Christmas “ secondly I own a 2022 Travato 59k and I am a novice when it comes to RV furnace as I have only had to use it twice before this freeze and then we were tied into 30 amp shore power, 40 degrees and everything worked fine. As I was tied into my house electrical system I only ran the furnace on half speed (850 watts) along with a small space heater (400 watts) to keep the amperage down. When I did run it high 1750 watts it worked better but if I understand it right that the furnace output is around 14000BTU so how warm should I expect the air when it’s 20 degrees outside. Well at least tomorrow we are headed back to normal SE Texas weather. Thanks, Mike
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It is hard to say how warm but if the furnace is working correctly, it should be more than enough to heat you too hot!
Consider that you have 14,000 BTU which is small compared to the normal home furnace of 80 to 100,000 btu. That means your furnace should be about 1/7 of the normal home furnace but the space heated in the normal home may be a round 2,000 square feet compared to your RV space?
If we said you had 10X20 feet, making it 200 square feet to heat, that works out to be only 1/10 of the space of the normal home!
So I'm quessing that there may be a couple items to check if you do not get air coming out of the vents which is not hot enough to burn you burn will often be warm enough to smell like burning dust if it has been a while since used! Random guess of about 90 or 100 hundred degrees?
I did a check of the online owners manual for the Travoto here:
https://www.winnebago.com/Files/File.../21Travato.pdf
You have a very new and very different heating system which I have no experience with using but I think there must be something missing on use of the heater as it should be well equipt to do the job.
One point I see down about section 5 is that there are two main gas shutoff switches and it mentions BOTH have to be on. Any chance of one of those being off to cut the gas supply?
But in looking for clues, I found the heat was mentioned but only briefly on page 4-6. Not enough there to spot any potential missing link but I did spot this note where they referr to a booklet in the info case and that should give far more idea of what might be happening.
I should deferr to that info as being far better than mine as I'm certainly not up on the new Travoto.
I have 2021 Pilot and just now found I could get a text read to me while driving.
But then I wonder if I really need that feature? I'm of the older generation who will just call when I get home!!
EDIT: I just did a run on a watt to BTU calc and find a 500 watt heater should only convert to around 1700BTU, so the furnace should be able to cook you at 14, 000 BTU!
But that is not a calculation I do often, so consider it "suspect".
Something not right somewhere!