Wesley Trainer
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- May 11, 2019
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I have an Atwood furnace in my jayco popup.
One of the most annoying things is running out of propane in the middle of the night and the blower fan continues to run blowing cold air into the trailer. Why they did not make provision for this seems weird. If at 3 am the propane runs out, the furnace seems to be designed to freeze out the occupants.
In the manual, "Sequence of Operation" step 4, it states ""if the system does not ignite and the thermostat remains closed, the blower will remain on until the thermostat is reset manually"
On a very cold night, this is not a good thing. Our first reaction is to curse the heating engineers who designed this thing as well as their ancestors. By the time we wake up and realize what is happening, the cold air has been blowing in for quite some time and the temperature is already very cold, so there is no chance of conservation of heat.
I have gone through this manual several times and have not yet found where it says how to reset my thermostat. It the middle of the night, I thought maybe turning down my thermostat to the lowest setting would help. But not if it is colder in the trailer, than the thermostats lowest settings. In the middle of the night, our solution was to unplug the trailer. Later we realized we could just turn off the converter.
Any help with resetting the thermostat will help. Or if someone has a better solution, I would appreciate it.
One of the most annoying things is running out of propane in the middle of the night and the blower fan continues to run blowing cold air into the trailer. Why they did not make provision for this seems weird. If at 3 am the propane runs out, the furnace seems to be designed to freeze out the occupants.
In the manual, "Sequence of Operation" step 4, it states ""if the system does not ignite and the thermostat remains closed, the blower will remain on until the thermostat is reset manually"
On a very cold night, this is not a good thing. Our first reaction is to curse the heating engineers who designed this thing as well as their ancestors. By the time we wake up and realize what is happening, the cold air has been blowing in for quite some time and the temperature is already very cold, so there is no chance of conservation of heat.
I have gone through this manual several times and have not yet found where it says how to reset my thermostat. It the middle of the night, I thought maybe turning down my thermostat to the lowest setting would help. But not if it is colder in the trailer, than the thermostats lowest settings. In the middle of the night, our solution was to unplug the trailer. Later we realized we could just turn off the converter.
Any help with resetting the thermostat will help. Or if someone has a better solution, I would appreciate it.