Dometic jet engine

[HWTG24]

Just adding this for all you people that are tired of the noise from the dometic/atwood furnaces that come on the grand design rv’s.

Mine was so loud, it would wake me up at night. It sounded darn near like a jet engine spooling up.

Yesterday I tore it out and replaced it with a suburban furnace of the same size, what a difference.

The suburban is whisper quiet compared to the dometic.

Be prepared to cut your opening a bit bigger, but we’ll worth the effort and cost.

 

[HWTG24]

Just adding this for all you people that are tired of the noise from the dometic/atwood furnaces that come on the grand design rv’s.

Mine was so loud, it would wake me up at night. It sounded darn near like a jet engine spooling up.

Yesterday I tore it out and replaced it with a suburban furnace of the same size, what a difference.

The suburban is whisper quiet compared to the dometic.

Be prepared to cut your opening a bit bigger, but well worth the effort and cost.

And if you were wondering, yes I replaced the worthless on demand water heater last year. What a joke that was.

 

[txloser]

Nice work.

My Solitude has a Suburban and after two FW’s with Atwood’s, I was surprised by how quiet it was. Atwood really did sound like a small jet, but it did a better job at heating my old FW that had about the same square footage. Different ducting setup though. Short soft ducts to sheet metal ducts that ran the length of the trailer over the tanks into floor vents.

What was the issue with the on demand water heater?

 

[HWTG24]

Nice work.

My Solitude has a Suburban and after two FW’s with Atwood’s, I was surprised by how quiet it was. Atwood really did sound like a small jet, but it did a better job at heating my old FW that had about the same square footage. Different ducting setup though. Short soft ducts to sheet metal ducts that ran the length of the trailer over the tanks into floor vents.

What was the issue with the on demand water heater?

If you ever tried to take a shower you will know why they don’t work. If you have water/sewer hookups and can let the shower run, they work great. 100% of my camping is off grid in the mountains so I have to conserve water.

The on demand has to sense flow to begin heating, usually a couple seconds. By the time the warm water gets to the shower head (another 3-5 seconds) and I get myself wet, I shut it off the shower to lather up. When you turn the faucet on again, the process starts over except you initially get warm water then you get hit with a couple seconds of ice cold water again.

Took me one trip to realize I’m going back to a tanked heater.

 

[txloser]

That makes sense. They’re definitely not great for off grid stuff. Maybe if you have a super small trailer with short runs from the heater to a fixture, but even then, you’ll run through some water.

We’ve managed 3 nights dry camping, but I think by afternoon day 4, I’d be out of water due to this.

Again, nice work.