How do I turn on Suburban heater in Starcraft Meteor?
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Rene T
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Are you talking furnace or water heater? Providing the model would help maybe
Kirk
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I have worked with a lot of different Suburban RV furnaces, but I can't locate anything on an NT18. I do have a service manual that covers NT models 12, 16, & 20 so I suspect that yours works the same way. If so, the furnace is turned on or off with the thermostat. In all cases that I am familiar with the thermostat looks like or similar to this one.
If it is, you just push it up to the temperature setting and the furnace should start the blower and after a short time open the gas valve and fire the ignition probe.
If it is, you just push it up to the temperature setting and the furnace should start the blower and after a short time open the gas valve and fire the ignition probe.
Rene T
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That’s why I asked.
Do you have a small silver exhaust port right behind where the sink should be that's NOT connected to the water heater?
We have a 1994 Starcraft Starburst popup with a 12' "tub", which I'm going to guess is somewhat similar. The sink goes on the drivers side, right in front of the bench with the freshwater tank. The furnace goes under the sink near the floor (inside the sink cabinet) and exhausts through the side right behind the sink, thermostat is attached to the left side of the countertop with the sink. It will happily drain an entire 20 pound barbecue tank in one night if it gets below freezing. You can probably find a damaged popup with the heater in it pretty cheap, just make sure it hasn't already been stripped for parts first.
I'm going to take a wild guess that this is the missing heater:
suburbanrv.com
It's over $1000 new, so finding a wrecked or damaged camper that has the same style would probably be your best bet. This style just has a little outlet on the outside for the heater exhaust, the other style has a full cabinet on the outside with a door you can open to service it.
Our didn't have a water heater at all or pressurized water, just a manual pump on the sink so its possible you just have a water heater instead of a furnace, but those furnaces are tiny you could easily shove one in somewhere.
I was also thinking even if yours never had a heater to start with, the other side of the camper from the sink has the propane line that goes to the external bracket for the camp stove, you could probably put a used furnace there
We have a 1994 Starcraft Starburst popup with a 12' "tub", which I'm going to guess is somewhat similar. The sink goes on the drivers side, right in front of the bench with the freshwater tank. The furnace goes under the sink near the floor (inside the sink cabinet) and exhausts through the side right behind the sink, thermostat is attached to the left side of the countertop with the sink. It will happily drain an entire 20 pound barbecue tank in one night if it gets below freezing. You can probably find a damaged popup with the heater in it pretty cheap, just make sure it hasn't already been stripped for parts first.
I'm going to take a wild guess that this is the missing heater:
SF-FQ Series Furnaces for RVs & Campers - Suburban
Suburban SF-FQ Series ducted heating furnace capacities range from 20,000 to 40,000 BTU/h. Small, compact and powerful with unlimited design and installation flexibility.
It's over $1000 new, so finding a wrecked or damaged camper that has the same style would probably be your best bet. This style just has a little outlet on the outside for the heater exhaust, the other style has a full cabinet on the outside with a door you can open to service it.
Our didn't have a water heater at all or pressurized water, just a manual pump on the sink so its possible you just have a water heater instead of a furnace, but those furnaces are tiny you could easily shove one in somewhere.
I was also thinking even if yours never had a heater to start with, the other side of the camper from the sink has the propane line that goes to the external bracket for the camp stove, you could probably put a used furnace there
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