The Hurricane Heater was included under the electrical portion because all the problems to-date on this coach dealt with electrical issues. There has been no problems related to the mechanical components (apart from changing out the brushes in the pump, which again would be electrical).

The hurricane heater by ITR (International Thermal Research) is a water/coolant based heating system. On this 2000 Safari Continental coach, there are 6 water heaters: 3 in the main salon and kitchen, 1 in the bathroom/shower, 1 in the bedroom and one in the basement area. The coach interior is divided into 2 comfort control zones – one thermostat in the salon and another in the bedroom. Fans blow air across the heater coils to provide heat. In the bays below the coach there is a heater radiator and fan to prevent lines from freezing. There are 4 control zones on the controller board, 2 mentioned above and one that provides heat to the hot water tank and another control zone that causes the burner to run for heating the engine coolant.

This coach developed a problem with the entire ITR control system failing. The burner would start to run then shutdown. The cause of the problem was not with the Hurricane system but a serious failure in the input power source through the power reel. That is covered in the power reel project. The intermittent power spikes cause the ITR controller board to fail and also damaged the reset able breaker in the electrical bay that feed the ITR system.

These projects deal with troubleshooting the problem. This had been going on for some time as an older version controller board was found in the MH, and it also had been damaged.

This section will be updated overtime to include reference materials, links and drawings as well as addendum’s to the project. ITR has excellent service and reference manuals. It is one of the few remaining companies that I have found that will work to help resolve problems with their products even though the product in my case was 20 years old.