Dometic RV Furnace - LP Gas - Automatic Pilot - 12V DC - 20,000 Btu - White Door

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Hello, neighbor, Steve here with etrailer.com. Let's take a look at our Dometic RV Furnace, running on LP gas, with an automatic pilot light that runs on 12 volts of DC current, rated at 20,000 BTU, with a nice white access door included. Now, folks, I'm gonna go ahead and remove this access door here, one, before it falls off the table, and two, I wanna be able to show you the correct measurements here. So, dimensional-wise, this is 12 inches wide, 20 inches deep or long, and seven inches tall overall. Now, keep in mind this plastic retainer would go in first, and then the white access panel with the metal finish on it and everything, or it's made of metal, over that, and then follow it up by this piece here, giving you that complete finished look once it's all installed and then screwed into place and everything. So, I'm gonna set all that over here to the side, and while I've got you zoomed in, so, why a furnace Well, it's gonna quickly and efficiently heat the interior of your RV, camper, motor home, travel trailer, fifth-wheel camper, those kind of things.

Maybe you need to replace one or just upgrade. You've got some access panels all over the sides here. They're gonna give you two included duct adapters, so that's where those ducting would go. But this is a propane-powered system. You got your four wires here, two blue for thermostat, black for ground, and red for power, that's the 12 volt power.

And when you're using this with the gas, the gas will be hooked up under this tab here. They got that sealed off for shipping. I'm gonna leave it there. And the propane-powered system's gonna let you boondock a lot easier, because you don't have to worry about being connected to shore power. You just need that 12 volt igniter from your battery on the motor home, camper or whatnot.

Now, it does use an automatic DSI gas pilot and that's direct-spark ignition, and it's gonna reduce the risk of gas leaks and also increase the fuel efficiency. Now, it does relight automatically until the heater is switched off. The blower here uses what's called a low-air turbulence. That's gonna provide quiet operation whenever it's blowing out the air. As you can see up here in the panel, you have an LED light down there on the bottom.

That could light up and give you some flashes. What that would be meaning is that it's flashing diagnostic codes, or faults, if you will, if there's any fault presence. So, let's say for whatever reason, it's outta gas, it may flash you a fault light, and you didn't know you we inchesre outta gas, so then you read your Instruction Manual on the Troubleshooting, and that flashing sequence will tell you, oh, it just needs propane refilled. So, stuff like that is what it's gonna give you. Now, it also will require a thermostat control unit, that's sold separately. I'll put that item number on the screen. Keep in mind, that's just a mechanical thermostat, meaning it's not LED, it's not Wi-Fi-activated or anything like that, it's just a simple control thermostat. You could also need butyl tape or RTV sealant if you're sealing up anything that gets put on the outside of this, if it's going on the outside of the RV fascia or camper, so things such as that muffler looking guy there, that heat shield, stuff like that. You also could possibly need, according to the instructions that came with it, some number six or number eight by 1/2 inch long, panhead or self-tapping AB-style screws as they call 'em. And again, that just depends on your specific installation needs. They do give you two mounting brackets and screws for that. And that little baggie of four screws, I found that that's for the outside connection on that panel as far as just putting that panel on. So, again, folks, 20,000 BTUs, white access door. This is the Dometic RV Furnace. I'm Steven, thanks so much for your time, thanks for watching, and have a great day.