VANAGON archives -- March 2006, week 2 (#84)

Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:02:05 -0800 Reply-To: TJ Hannink <tjhannink@YAHOO.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: TJ Hannink <tjhannink@YAHOO.COM> Subject: Re: Propane heaters Comments: To: Number9Trvlr@AOL.COM In-Reply-To: <1ac.495b591c.3140b105@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

The Suburbans need to be externally vented - you need to cut 2-2" holes in the side of your van somewhere.

My RV has three of them; they warm the interior up in a real hurry. I don't think they draw 5-amps per hour though, once they get the interior to the preset temperature they cycle pretty slowly. The rate depends on interior volume and external temperature.

Good luck,

Tim.

"John C..." <Number9Trvlr@AOL.COM> wrote: In a message dated 3/8/2006 9:03:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, jjolson@GWTC.NET writes: I've been looking into heaters/furnaces for my Vanagon. Is there any reason to spend $450 for a Plat-Cat heater that shows up on Thesamba.com periodically

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=251970

rather than for a Suburban furnace with twice the btus for half the price that shows up on ebay?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/BRAND-NEW-SUBURBAN-LP-GAS-RV-FURNACE_W0QQitemZ4 618095170QQcategoryZ50073QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

If the reason is space, that's not an issue for me as I can build the cabinet to fit the furnace.

Curious minds want to know???

Jeff Martin, SD Hi Jeff & all, I couldn't come up with any that swayed me, So, I picked up a Suburban 12,000btu NT.

best, John C... SLC, UT... 85 Westy ( Dinky Dau ) 90 Carat ( Number 9 )

TJ Hannink Goldibox - 1987 Vanagon Camper, Wolfsburg Edition 1981 Bluebird Wanderlodge, FC-33 Winter Park, Florida http://home.earthlink.net/~tjhannink/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FC_wanderlodge FAVOR website: http://home.earthlink.net/~clubvanagon

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