I have a brand new suburban NT 16 furnace that I installed 2 weeks.ago in an enclosed trailer I converted into a camping trailer.
At first it seemed to work fine, but last weekend on a trip I fired it up upon reaching our destination and it was fine at first but after about 2-3 minutes of running and being outside I heard slight what I can only call a ?rough air noise? at the exterior exhaust port. I also noticed the orange/ yellow flame at the burner window. The furnace then really struggled to warm up the trailer. It was single digits outside, but the furnace had never had a problem in similar temps while testing it. I shut the furnace down for the night and in the morning found a place and purchased a new 2 stage regulator. It seemed to help the first few times the furnace ran for the next couple nights but the temps were much warmer 20-35 degrees. Yesterday I heard the same air noise and obviously the regulator wasn?t the issue.
Tonight at home with temps again near single digits and the trailer cold, I fired it up and sure enough after about 5 minutes of running it was back again. I was at the exhaust tonight and I put my hand over the fresh air intake and held it there and within a few seconds the noise stopped I went inside and the blue flame was back. It was fine for about a minute and then as I was outside again I heard the ?poof? and the noise immediately came back. No easing into, or slowly getting louder it was just there and of course inside there was the orange yellow flame. I can repeat this scenario over and over.
Any ideas what could be causing this before I take it to my local dealer to test??
Im busy at work and need to use the trailer (and heat) this weekend so if the dealer can?t look at it I might have to find time to look at any possible solutions myself.
Any ideas?
At first it seemed to work fine, but last weekend on a trip I fired it up upon reaching our destination and it was fine at first but after about 2-3 minutes of running and being outside I heard slight what I can only call a ?rough air noise? at the exterior exhaust port. I also noticed the orange/ yellow flame at the burner window. The furnace then really struggled to warm up the trailer. It was single digits outside, but the furnace had never had a problem in similar temps while testing it. I shut the furnace down for the night and in the morning found a place and purchased a new 2 stage regulator. It seemed to help the first few times the furnace ran for the next couple nights but the temps were much warmer 20-35 degrees. Yesterday I heard the same air noise and obviously the regulator wasn?t the issue.
Tonight at home with temps again near single digits and the trailer cold, I fired it up and sure enough after about 5 minutes of running it was back again. I was at the exhaust tonight and I put my hand over the fresh air intake and held it there and within a few seconds the noise stopped I went inside and the blue flame was back. It was fine for about a minute and then as I was outside again I heard the ?poof? and the noise immediately came back. No easing into, or slowly getting louder it was just there and of course inside there was the orange yellow flame. I can repeat this scenario over and over.
Any ideas what could be causing this before I take it to my local dealer to test??
Im busy at work and need to use the trailer (and heat) this weekend so if the dealer can?t look at it I might have to find time to look at any possible solutions myself.
Any ideas?