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Need some HEAT!

Yahoo Message Number: 92049
Good morning! I have just purchased a 2000 affinity w/ two slides. Coming from a lower end coach I am not familiar with the heating and aquahot systems. I would like someone to give my a quick lesson on heating my coach. I have found several knobs for blower fan control, and there is a nuheat knob above the washer and dryer. I can not find a "on/off" switch for any system. What am I missing to get heat? Do the roof AC units typically have heat pump? We are going camping in two weeks and would love not to have to deal with portable heaters. Thanks!
 

Re: Need some HEAT!

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Yahoo Message Number: 92055
We have a 2002 Affinity 42' with two slides. Here is how ours works.

1. Yes the air conditioners should be heat pumps. We have three of them and they provide quite a bit of heat down to about 40F. Somewhat noisy heat though.
2. Our Hurricane (AquaHot - similar) heater works through the thermostat over the exit door. Push the mode button till you see furnace. That is the setting that activates the Aquahot - Hurricane heater. So set the temp you want.
3. We have a control panel in the bedroom of the our coach on the right side of the back wall. Ours has about 10 switches on it. On the top row our heater switches (toggle type) are number three and number four counting from the left. There is a green light between these two switchers. When you push the two switches so the top of them is depressed the green light should go on and you would hear the system activate. There are two sound. There are 5 recirculation pumps and you should hear them go on. Then there is the diesel water boiler itself and you be able to hear that activate.
4. We have three fan switches for the furnace. Two on the front panel in about the middle above the driven and passenger seats. I usually turn mine to medium. There is also one in the back on the same panel the toggle - rocker switches are on. You can set that one to medium too. There three fans correspond to the three furnace zones.
5. A bit of a confusing thing is that we have three fans controls, but on the thermostat only zones 1 and 3 show the furnace mode. I don't know why that is. We just turn the thermostat zone two to off. All three zones put out heat though.
(laughing a bit) It is not easy to figure this out. Also, if you have a back second over the road air conditioning system like we do the fan switch for it is on the back panel where the heater switches are. Took me a 1 1/2 years to figure that out.
Hope this help. You also might consider an electric plug in heater. We mostly use that for heat. We don't go to cold places though. When you need lots of heat the furnace is the best choice. It just makes a bit too much noise for us when we sleep.
Bob & Barbra 2002 Affinity 42'