R-pod 172 T Thermostat question

Check the voltage first.  You need one that operates on 6 VDC.

Bob

Neat, I didn't know anyone had the heat strips.  Thanks for the info folks!!

Originally posted by HuronSailor If the furnace fan came on but no heat came out, you might try lighting the stove burners. Really. Since you say you just installed the tank the gas line might just need to be purged. The easiest way to do this is to get the stove burners lit. Once they light you can turn them off again. Your gas lines are purged. I have to do this almost every time I switch the fridge to gas. If nothing whatsoever happened, then it's likely an electrical issue.

That is very good advice and might be part of the problem.  However, apparently nothing happens (the fan does not turn on) when the thermostat temperature is turned up.  And that brings up another possibility.  If the ambient temperature inside the pod is too high, the furnace will not turn on.

Travis, I better clarify my last post.  My pod came with a Coleman A/C, and I bought it slightly used.  The heat strip was already in place, although I have installed them in other used units we have owned.  Coleman sells their units both with and without the heat strips, and I don't know if FR offered the buyers their choice back then.  I know virtually nothing about the Dometic units.

We have spent well over 200 nights camping since we moved to Florida, and always with at least partial hookups. Rather than start the noisy propane furnace, which is over-kill for our climate, we have always used either a heat strip and/or a small electric heater.  Even when we lived in the Midwest (IL, IN and MI) I can't remember ever using our propane furnace.  After all, if you have an electric hookup, why waste propane and listen to the noise? 

But, that is just the logic of an old Scotchman.

Bob

The heat and air are two different units.  None of the AC's have the heat strip installed to function as a secondary heater, thus why we have the propane furnaces in our Pods!