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GlennLever
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Nov 11, 2013

Running an RV in the cold, What is there to know and do

We had planned a trip to Florida to visit my parents before the cold weather was to set in. We started the trip, but ran into an ever increasing number of "smallish" problems with the RV. I put ...
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Norm___Deb
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Nov 12, 2013
One night outside temps were around 20 and the my remote sensor in the water bay was reading just above freezing. All was good. Up at sunrise and then I hit the Interstate. The wind from moving drove the temps in the bay down and the lines froze up in about a half hour.

The fix was to just stop, and wait until the ambient temps went above freezing. The pipes unfroze and we were on our way.

The "highway" wind drove the temps down. And I should have known that.

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