No campground spots available, what to do?
So my better half had a trip she wanted to take but didn't quite get to making any reservations until a week before. Of course almost every park is full at the stops she wants to make. What do most ...
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The downside is you have no way to rescue him/her without actually calling the campsite or some other way.
In our situation, if she's in our truck, she's only a few hundred yards away from us, so I can quickly run back and open the doors if something happens. For example, I had a fuel filter problem which caused an air bubble in the fuel line, it shut off my motor but didn't shut off the AC, so it was blowing hot air into the truck cab. The system alerted me immediately, and I was able to get to the truck in a minute or less and open the doors and cool it off. It only got into the 80s, which was still less than OAT.
There are more advanced systems (that you subsequently pay for) that will do all sorts of things, like honk your horn, roll your windows down, pop open doors automatically (which could be bad if your dog will run!), etc when it gets too hot.
My system works for me because she's never in an area that's far from us, and we can check on her in a moment. If I were spending a day away from my camper, then I would have to either ensure someone at the site can check on her if it goes off, or have another plan.
If you're too cheap to do it the professional way, and don't need an automatic intervention, what you should look at: A Bluetooth Dongle Phone Line to Cell connection (people use these to have their cell phones ring to House lines and vice versa), and Freeze / Water / Heat alarm dialer. And a spare cell phone (I use my wife's)
If you want automatic intervention, you would have to go another way, or engineer another part of this system.
YMMV.
In our situation, if she's in our truck, she's only a few hundred yards away from us, so I can quickly run back and open the doors if something happens. For example, I had a fuel filter problem which caused an air bubble in the fuel line, it shut off my motor but didn't shut off the AC, so it was blowing hot air into the truck cab. The system alerted me immediately, and I was able to get to the truck in a minute or less and open the doors and cool it off. It only got into the 80s, which was still less than OAT.
There are more advanced systems (that you subsequently pay for) that will do all sorts of things, like honk your horn, roll your windows down, pop open doors automatically (which could be bad if your dog will run!), etc when it gets too hot.
My system works for me because she's never in an area that's far from us, and we can check on her in a moment. If I were spending a day away from my camper, then I would have to either ensure someone at the site can check on her if it goes off, or have another plan.
If you're too cheap to do it the professional way, and don't need an automatic intervention, what you should look at: A Bluetooth Dongle Phone Line to Cell connection (people use these to have their cell phones ring to House lines and vice versa), and Freeze / Water / Heat alarm dialer. And a spare cell phone (I use my wife's)
If you want automatic intervention, you would have to go another way, or engineer another part of this system.
YMMV.
