Tanks, heat, winterizing....
Got a question. We have talked about maybe going next Thanksgiving down to Florida for the week with the motorhome. We normally winterize in October. We had a couple days that dipped down to the low 2...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi Dave,
The beef is that for some of us it takes 3 days travel to get below the snow line. Using an RV "dry" is a bit of a pain. I don't relish going to a flea bag motel, either.
I think when this issue hits us, we will take dry rest stops with bottled drinking water kept warm in the TV until we reach ambient temps above freezing rather than going to hotels.
I also wonder if anyone has considered winter re-circulation:
In water pumping equipment, we circulate the water to keep it from freezing. You can't put in enough pink stuff to winterize it, so we pump it to keep it moving. People talk about freezups of the lines while camping and having to leave water trickling from the faucets -- same principle. This stuff gets operated down well into temps in the teens and all of the lines / pumps are exposed out in the weather. It is a much higher volume, so that might be a factor. Maybe a little flo-jet pump can't hold out against freezing 6 gallons a minute like a 60 GPM industrial pump does.
I might have to do a little test the next time I get a spare electric pump to play with - let it run outside with a barrel of water to see how cold it will continue to work.
