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 Topic: Whale blown air heater
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10/5/2020 at 9:26am
Location: nr Derby
Outfit: Phoenix 440+
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No ideas, but we had the same problems with the Whale system on an Explorer group van plus many other niggles. We were fortunately in a position to cut our losses and got an excellent deal from our dealer on a different van.
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10/5/2020 at 10:11am
Location: Staithes
Outfit: Vantage Neo
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I am not a specialist on these heaters so all this is second hand from experience and the engineer at the van manufacturer.
On our whale heater the air in / out are both external (under the van).
Originally we just had warm air outlets in the walls near the floor but recently the engineer fitted an internal air inlet on the same wall as the outlet. Apparently this is legislation driven? I don’t see any reason that the inlet could not be moved further up the wall as long as it opens into the same space as the heater unit.
Agree about the second point. We just partially close the flap nearest the heater and that increases the flow to the other outlets.
Can’t say we have had the fan noise problem but that may be down to me being ancient.
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