Will my furnace run on 15 amp land line?

Jhuff8181

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We are at my son's house for a few weeks and are hooked up with only 15 amps. We are in a 2015 Gateway 365BH. Does anyone know if this is enough to run our furnace?

John
 

9-larry

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your furnace runs off the 12 volt system that runs off you battery which is charged by your converter so you will be ok.
 

Jhuff8181

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Do I have to do anything to make sure the battery is charging? The reason I as is that the indicator light on the propane tank switch is not glowing red or green.
 

danemayer

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In your control panel, there's a switch to check tank water levels. One of the indicators is for the battery charge. If the Power Converter is charging the battery, the indicator will always show 4 lights. If you have auto-leveling, you can cycle its control panel to show voltage which will be >13 V if charging. Or you can put a voltmeter directly on the battery terminals to check for >13V DC.

The Power Converter at times may consume up to 12 amps. So you don't have a lot of leftover capacity to run other things. You definitely want the water heater set to propane mode, not electric.
 

JohnD

Moved on to the next thing...
I run our furnace when needed while plugged into the house (garage outlet) with no problems.
 

Crumgater

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Should be no problem.
All you're running is the fan, should be a low power item.

But, it will draw the battery down if you don't plug in (after a day or two)... so it's not insignificant.
As mentioned above, check the Battery Charge Level on your control panel, should be all 4 lights when plugged in.
 

Jhuff8181

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Thanks everyone for your input. Turns out I only needed to change the thermostat to the auto setting before setting it to furnace. Works great now but I have another question - how long before the "new furnace" smell wears off?

John
 

happykraut

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Most likely you're plugged into a 20 A receptacle at your sons house. While I have run the AC at my house before, I did run into a problem at my cousins house a few years ago on a SOB. He had very low voltage at his house and me using an extension cord that was too long(and I know better), I did burn up my AC.
 

GWRam

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The initial oil smoke shouldn't last long and will clear faster if you can ventilate the unit. The new furnace smell shouldn't last but a couple hours to days depending on how often the furnace cycles on/off.


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The furnace runs off 12volt dc power so you will be fine, the only reason you would need to be plugged into 120volt ac is to keep batteries charged. I have boon docked for a week at a time without being plugged in and ran the furnace the entire time. I had to plug the trailer cord in to my tv and run it for about 20 minutes 3 times day to keep the batteries charged.
 

Jacknel

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I want to connect a programable thermostat to my furnace and air conditioner, but there are only 3 wires instead of four. Does anyone have a schematic to wire this. My new thermostat has 2 AA batteries
 

danemayer

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I want to connect a programable thermostat to my furnace and air conditioner, but there are only 3 wires instead of four. Does anyone have a schematic to wire this. My new thermostat has 2 AA batteries
If you're trying to use a home thermostat it may not work in place of a Dometic LCD.
 
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