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Re: Buying a CC hurricane heat

Reply #25 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9747
I, for one, LOVE redundant systems and have found the need for them more than once! I would never buy a rig that didn't give me the option of several methods of fueling various appliances. There have been enough times when one fuel source or another made a difference to warrant the redundancy. This winter we used diesel to fuel our Hurricane heater (that also heats water)...we had marginal electric at the park we were in, so we used propane for our refrig. That's happened several times. (Yes, we could move, but sometimes it's not convenient to do so.)

I'll never buy an all-electric rig...what happens when the inverter starts to do crazy things...like they have done to some of us? Give me propane, diesel, AND batteries and I'll be happy.
Jan McNeill, Fulltimer

Currently in VA...heading north soon

Re: Buying a CC hurricane heat

Reply #26 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9748
Thank you very much for your opinion, I never thought of the need for several types of fuel.janmcneill wrote: I, for one, LOVE redundant systems and have found the need for them more than once! I would never buy a rig that didn't give me the option of several methods of fueling various appliances. There have been enough times when one fuel source or another made a difference to warrant the redundancy. This winter we used diesel to fuel our Hurricane heater (that also heats water)...we had marginal electric at the park we were in, so we used propane for our refrig. That's happened several times. (Yes, we could move, but sometimes it's not convenient to do so.)I'll never buy an all-electric rig...what happens when the inverter starts to do crazy things...like they have done to some of us?Give me propane, diesel, AND batteries and I'll be happy. Jan McNeill, FulltimerCurrently in VA...heading north soon

Re: Buying a CC hurricane heat

Reply #27 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9749
You forgot the solar panel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I agree with you 100%.  I almost wish I had an LP furnace, especially now that diesel is so high.  My older Hurricane quit last winter and my plumbing bay froze.  Broke the filter housing and the pressure switch on the pump.  Very inconvenient.
 
David & Karen CA.
2000 Intrigue 11062
40 ft Single slide. PT
2002 Odyssey TOAD

Re: Buying a CC

Reply #28 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9750
You can look up the article about their problems on the iternet there was an article in the local Nacadoches Paper. TWI

Re: Buying a CC

Reply #29 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9766
Tom,

From what I have heard Foretravel has closed all their factory stores and gone to a dealer system. I also heard their factory was closed for a time, but I see in the FMCA mag. that there are dealers now advertizing Foretravel units in stock. I have also heard that Blue Bird is thinking about selling off or spliting off the RV conversion business, don't know much about this but I drove a blue bird M380 and I liked the ride but I don't like the way it stops with just 2 axles. My Magna with the tag stops so much better and I think thats important. The M380 is at it's limits for 2 axles, thats why they do not use any ceramic tile in the 2 axle unit. They are trying to keep the weight down so they do not need a tag.

Bill G. 2001 Magna #5998 with a 2005 Magna on order

Re: Buying a CC hurricane heat

Reply #31 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9777
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You forgot the solar panel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, I'm jealous! They'd be neat sometimes, but we're still not into "roughing it" that much ! We're almost always hooked up, but a lot of times in the summer especially we'll find campgrounds with VERY marginal electric...voltage has gone down to low 90's! (We trip our surge guard of course...) So, the only way to stay powered is to put the refrig on propane as well as the water heater...then, at least I can run the microwave or "let George" grill.

Jan McNeill, Fulltimer

Currently in VA, heading north to New England soon...

Re: Buying a CC

Reply #32 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9808
Ray, I agree with your statement the Hurricane combo heat and hot water unit was a bomb in the 03 Allure and Intrigue. I was one of the most vocal complainers re the problems with mine. I must report, however, that my unit is now operating flawlessly. Some of the problems had to do with CC's installation, but most fell squarely on Hurricane. To their credit, they hung in there with me, and I assume others and made changes in their organization. It speaks volumes that they had people at the CCI rally inTennessee to service their product even though they lost the account to Accu Hot.

Walt Rothermel
03Allure30811

Re: Buying a CC

Reply #33 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9814
Walt, I have to agree with you.

Once Hurricane tweaked their control board, our system has worked like a champ.

Now, if we could just do something about the weather up here in Mich, we could use the darn thing! 50 degrees the other day, 87 and humid the next, and rain, rain, rain.....

Bill Harris

03 Allure 1st Ave 30912
Datastorm

Re: Buying a CC hurricane heat

Reply #34 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9931
David and Karen,

I have had 2000 hours on my heater and had it overhauled last fall, during the overhaul process a stud which not welded correctly twisted off from the plem in the heater combustion chamber so it had to be sent out to Canada to be fixed. This was done but I could not pick it up until this May because of my work schedule. I keep the coach in Clt, NC and live in it.
So what I did was I brought 2 ceramic heaters I placed one in the lower bay where the access panel is for the water filter, I took the access panel off and the heater kept the water bays warm I put a temp gauge in the bay where the dump valves and water fill ups are and even when it was in the low teens outside it was always 60 in the bays it also kept the tiles warm to walk on in the coach. I used the other heater in the coachand it always kept it warm enough to live in.
So I think I'm going to use this system all the time now to heat the coach.

Gary Bettig

2002 Intrigue 11451

Re: dumping hurricane

Reply #35 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9934
Hi Dave and Karen

Does not speak well of the hurricane heat system for your to use portable heat system.

Tom

Re: dumping hurricane

Reply #36 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9979
Tom,

One of the problems with the Hurricane system was that people are to cheap to use it all the time. They used the electric heaters and the heat pumps and then when it was really cold they used the Hurricane. To late then because the diesel fuel which

is not the greatest fuel would not work well. So everyone hated the Hurricane. Once we realized this we started using the Hurricane all the time and it worked fine. We even run it in the summer just to keep it working. We also change the hurricane fuel filter every trip and the nozzle once a year. The hurricane is like the generator, use it or lose it.

Bill G. 2001 Magna #5998

Re: dumping hurricane

Reply #37 –
Yahoo Message Number: 9985
We have an interesting scenario with our hurricane.
We keep our 2002 Intrigue at home in Oregon during the winter and set the hurricane thermostat to 55 degrees. We notice it works well for awhile - then quits for some strange reason. We've taken it to CC twice to have it fixed and both times, once arriving there, it works fine.
Then it dawned on me. Each time we need to take it to JC we need to add fuel. Ha. It seemed that when our fuel tank was about 1/2 empty - and I mean 1/2, not a typo that should read 1/4 - the hurricane stopped working probably because it simply couldn't pull fuel out of the tank.
We believe the tube which runs into the fuel tank from the hurricane does not go into the tank as far as it should. We recall that both the generator and hurricane should stop when the fuel tank is out 1/4 empty - but not 1/2. Accordingly, then, we're taking our coach back to CC to have then check this and repair it this is the problem. We don't know if the generator will run when the fuel tank is at 1/2 or not. Never tried it. I wonder if both the generator fuel intake tube and hurricane are the same or do two separate tubes going to the fuel take to supply their respective pieces of equipment.

Has anyone else had this same problem? I'd really like to know and I'd really appreciate CC fixing this under warranty even tho the coach is now out of warranty.
Tom

Re: dumping hurricane

Reply #38 –
Yahoo Message Number: 10030
Tom,

One thing that will will help the hurricane work better when you go into storage is to make sure your fuel tank is full with winter fuel. We never store our coach without the tank being full, infact our neighbor fills his tank 15 miles from home and then he tops it off with a can of diesel when he gets home. I don't go to that extream but a full tank always stores better. We also do not buy fuel in a warn climate and then go into a cold climate with out filling up as much as possible. When we stored our coach outside in Baltimore, MD. in the winter I always added anti-gel to the fuel before the storage fillup to keep the lines from gelling. Winter fuel has different additives and the fuel line from the tank to the Hurricane is small, much smaller then the engine line and as far as I know there is no return fuel line. Not many people talk about winter fuel but that helps the hurricane work better, I think!.

Bill G. 2001 Magna #5998

Re: dumping hurricane

Reply #39 –
Yahoo Message Number: 10032
Hi Bill,    Thanks for all your recent comments regarding potential Hurricane problems,  you mentioned several things that hadn't occurred to me.  In a couple of weeks we will be back to where the coach is presently located and with luck I will have time to play with the Hurricane and see if it can be made to work.  Otherwise it will have to wait for the factory visit in August.
 
David & Karen CA.
2000 Intrigue 11062
40 ft Single slide. PT
2002 Odyssey TOAD
 

Re: dumping hurricane

Reply #40 –
Yahoo Message Number: 10081
Bill I have learned a lot from you hope to meet you at the rally

bill Vincent 2002 Manga 6048