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  • Central Heat Control

    Posted by Bill on November 16, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    My 2003 CC manual says that to activate the freeze protection turn on the Central Heat button. The button stays yellow and apparently doesn’t work. I checked the circuit breakers and the only one I could find was marked HVAC and it was not tripped. Apparently none of the other dashboard and bedroom heat related buttons work either. They all stay yellow and the freeze status button also does not work. Any suggestions would be appeciated. Thanks

    Archived replied 11 years, 9 months ago 5 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Archived

    Member
    November 16, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    My 02 CC also activates in that way and regulates the bays with a thermostat located in my coach, in the first bay passenger side. My domestic hydronic system is a Hurricane unit. Have you checked to make sure your hydronic system is on? If the furnace runs( make sure it is the furnace setting not the heat pumps) obviously it is on. Or maybe the sunmulon switch is just not giving the right color. They will do that at times. If functioning correctly Green = OK; Flashing amber = below 40 (and central heat off); Red = below 40 (and central heat on); Flashing Red = error with plumbing bay heating heating circuits. Good luck.

  • Archived

    Member
    November 16, 2014 at 7:07 pm

    Thanks, I also have a hurricane system, There is a button along side the bed to turn it on. I switched it on and it runs but it doesn’t seem to make a difference if the central heat control switch is on or not. Is it your understanding that for the freeze protection to work the Hurricane furnace needs to be in the on position? This could be a problem for me because I don’t want to run the furnace in the barn that has no ventilation. For some reason I thought that thefreeeze system was electric. Thanks for info

  • Archived

    Member
    November 16, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    Bill, had another thought. Does your coach have a panel of fuses in the inverter bay ? CC calls it a Battery Distribution Board. Mine has a 30amp fuse labeled Hydronic Heater Breaker and indicator light beside each fuse to show if the fuse is good. If not lit the fuse is bad.

  • Glenn

    Member
    November 16, 2014 at 7:24 pm

    Bill, in my 99 it works like this.

    Put your thermostat in the furnace positions, mine has two zones, front dash and under the kitchen cabinets and zone 3 is the bedroom heat exchanger. There is no zone two. Also my system is a Webasto. My thermostats is overhead as you come in the entrance door.

    Once you put the thermostat in the furnance position, and set the temp setting high enough push the button that says interior heat exchangers and you should hear the fans in the coach come on and the burner fire off. I see you said you have a huricane, I don’t know exactly know what that is.

    I (think) in my coach the central heat button has no effect unless the Webasto is on. This does allow hot water to circulate through out the bays that are plumbed for that function.

    I saw in one of the replys to your post that some of the buttons will change colors on their own indicating certain conditions in the bays. I have never seen any of mine do this unless my coach has never met the needed conditions to make the switches function as stated.

    Keep in mind my coach is a 99 and may be totaly different from yours. Hope some of this applies to your coach.

  • Peter

    Member
    November 16, 2014 at 7:51 pm

    Sorry I was not clear in what I wrote. I just thought turning on the furnace would show the system was powered up. It can be shut down completely. I think you are correct that electric will manage the Freeze Prevent feature. Do you know the bay temperature currently? What is your air temp? What color is your freeze prevent button indicating? Solid red or solid green would indicate normal operation.

  • Archived

    Member
    November 16, 2014 at 7:59 pm

    The Hurricane is a similar system to your Webasto and sounds like the operation for the user is identical. My XLII just has the controls in a different location from your coach.

  • Archived

    Member
    November 16, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    Thanks I will check back tomorrow

  • jack

    Member
    November 17, 2014 at 10:42 am

    Thanks for the suggestions but it turns out that the buttons referred to are disconnected because the way our coach is set up they are not needed. For freeze protection, if real cold, I need to operate the furnace and that will provide bay heat. More than likely I can just run a small 110 heater in the coach and it will be sufficient to prevent freezing. Thanks Roger for the heads up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Archived

    Member
    November 17, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    Thanks for posting the result. Stay warm.

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