Hi Bob,
Thanks--but I'm afraid it is a case of damhik. My cold weather time line, precedes yours.
I did do a five day stint in Calgary where the high was -27 c and blizzard conditions made the solar useless. I had a generator--and no shore power. I was away for most of the day, so to cut down on power consumption I used the stove as a blue flame heater, not so much for the heat--but to "fool" the thermostat so I would not come back to dead batteries.
I'd come home and start the generator--turn on all the heaters I could support and turn up the furnace. Then I set a really LOUD mechanical timer--so that I would not fall asleep by accident with the generator running. Since that RV was a class C diesel (Citation Supreme), I also ran the block heater. After it got warmed for 2 hours I'd start the engine...and drive to the gas station to fill up the generator and gas can.
Wobbly wide web access was via a cell phone calling a dial up isp--so the speed was 1/4 regular dial up. I could stream audio from BBC successfully back in those days on that narrow a "pipe".
The coldest I've been out in is -37 C. Both Moving Sue and Photo Mike have me beat--they have been camping at -40.
BobsYourUncle wrote:
Don, you're just a wealth of information!!!
I learn something new every time I read one of your posts!
