APU Heat

Here is your operators manual.

http://cdnmedia.endeavorsuite.com/images//organizations/ea9c7337-d73a-48b4-ba9a-69f9b4d1e91d/TriPac53035_01162012.pdf?v=20120116154124

 

What's the point of the bunk heater if the truck has an APU? I never liked the bunk heater. Had a few times where I woke up cold and with dead batteries.

 

Prime sets up their APU's to charge the batteries at a given point. So you can run everything and the APU will automatically kick on when that batteries are discharged to a certain point.

 

They routed the air intake too close to the output on the bunk heater. When the intake air gets warm it doesn't put out much heat. I've been puttinga toolbox between the vents and it works allot better. Like to move the intake when i have time.

 

Ok. That's a good idea. Thanks for responding.

 

The bunk heater is part of the APU package and controlled with the APU controller on most trucks. The first truck I drove had the bunk heater installed before it had a TriPac put on it (this was in 2006), and the bunk heater had a separate control knob. Every other truck I drove the heat was controlled with the TriPac controller.

Also as long as you leave the APU power on (The TriPac had 2 power buttons, one main power, and one APU power) if the batteries got low the APU would kick on to charge them.