Our Trumatic E2400 Space Heater... to you and me that's a gas powered blown air heater... well it makes an odd noise. Like some kind of ghostly pregnant cow making little short mooing sounds. It resonates inside the van, but unfortunately it can also be heard outside.
Just worth mentioning... this is a campervan/motorhome, not a caravan. I hope I don't get kicked off the forum for admitting this.
The noise is coming from the flue outlet/exhaust which is situated underneath the van, pointing down.
The heater has a high and low setting, and the noise is there on both settings, but worse... a bit louder and more regular... when on high. It improves slightly once the heater has warmed up, but it's still bloody annoying.
I thought at first that it might have been just a unique combination of external breeze and van position playing tunes over the mouth of the open flue tube... just like you'd get if you blew across the neck of a wide tube with a sealed bottom end; but I checked and there wasn't a breath of wind.
I've not had this van long, but before we came away on our 5 month Italian tour... we're in week three now, in the Dolomites... we re-tested everything on a short trip to the Scottish Solway coast. Everything seemed fine then.
So what's causing this, is it a regular and known occurence on this model of heater, what can I do to stop or minimize it?
A few decades back we had a LWB Transit camper that had a Propex blown Air Heater. That was a little noisy, but it was just a slight and very acceptable roar. We were woken early one morning by an irate camper complaining how we'de kept him awake half the night with our loud music. I thought he was nuts... but just assured him we did no such thing. The next night, I realized what he'd heard was the gentle roar of our propex exhaust bouncing between the stone wall, only 3 foot away, and the rows of other vans against this wall. The magnified reverberating result was like Rolf Harris' Didgeridoo.
Now, we all know that no-one wants bothering with any Rolf related incidences, but I also don't want to disturb fellow campers. So I need to either find a solution, hope for warm weather, or camp on our own.
Just worth mentioning... this is a campervan/motorhome, not a caravan. I hope I don't get kicked off the forum for admitting this.
The noise is coming from the flue outlet/exhaust which is situated underneath the van, pointing down.
The heater has a high and low setting, and the noise is there on both settings, but worse... a bit louder and more regular... when on high. It improves slightly once the heater has warmed up, but it's still bloody annoying.
I thought at first that it might have been just a unique combination of external breeze and van position playing tunes over the mouth of the open flue tube... just like you'd get if you blew across the neck of a wide tube with a sealed bottom end; but I checked and there wasn't a breath of wind.
I've not had this van long, but before we came away on our 5 month Italian tour... we're in week three now, in the Dolomites... we re-tested everything on a short trip to the Scottish Solway coast. Everything seemed fine then.
So what's causing this, is it a regular and known occurence on this model of heater, what can I do to stop or minimize it?
A few decades back we had a LWB Transit camper that had a Propex blown Air Heater. That was a little noisy, but it was just a slight and very acceptable roar. We were woken early one morning by an irate camper complaining how we'de kept him awake half the night with our loud music. I thought he was nuts... but just assured him we did no such thing. The next night, I realized what he'd heard was the gentle roar of our propex exhaust bouncing between the stone wall, only 3 foot away, and the rows of other vans against this wall. The magnified reverberating result was like Rolf Harris' Didgeridoo.
Now, we all know that no-one wants bothering with any Rolf related incidences, but I also don't want to disturb fellow campers. So I need to either find a solution, hope for warm weather, or camp on our own.