Using RV in winter, including water
Live in Ontario, Canada, so weather is obviously below freezing most days. Looking to use my RV this winter for a month. Is it possible to fill it with water and use it normally if it's heated a...
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We are near Kingman Az for several months on a family mission now 6 months
Didn't expect to be here this long or have cold weather.
We are at 3700 ft and have seen snow and may nights in the twenties.It is not the brutal mid west winters of course.
We have had our water hose get some ice in it in the very late night early morning.
The heat pumps have done very well down into the low thirties though one sounds like a locamotive. hd to replace the front unit and upped the size. When the temps cause the heat pumps to reach their limits the furnaces come on automatically. The rear furnace also heats the tanks.
If it was prolonged cold might have to run the furnaces exclusively. Quiter for sure....the wet bay has some small drain holes as well a clearances for sewer hose and water hose and no insulation. My intent is to run a circuit for a small forced air thermostat statically controlled heater into the area with GFCI of course. The luggage compartment light puts out some heat from the 12 volt bulb as if,,,,,if left on.Before we leave I may have to put a drop light into the wet bay and buy a heated water hose, something we just kept putting off.
The one thing that is not really enough Propane capacity. We ahve pulled up and had to go fill the tank four times. It is supposedly a 38 gallon tank. Maybe the indicator or gauge is not accurate.
We filled it with 28. soemthing gallons when it indicated it was at 1/4 tank and two other times it only took 24 gallons even, once when it said it was about empty.
So having a 100 lb tank delivered and a connector installed would seemingly make sense.
While the front heat pump was otu of commission we ran a small 15 amp 120v forced air heater in the front of the coach and it cued the rear heat pump to cycle off because it was quite warm. Two of them would probably be all the heat needed down into the low twenties and maybe below. However with two circuits can't run tow or the toaster and te heater or the convection oven and heater. I have to reset the button on the Inverter and once the breaker under the bed. Makes no sense where is my second circuit and why would the converter/inverter care on 120 volt ac?
Now if there is a lot of cold moisture the rear heat pump when it cycled off would drip water onto the floor. Our coach is now 15 years old.
Didn't expect to be here this long or have cold weather.
We are at 3700 ft and have seen snow and may nights in the twenties.It is not the brutal mid west winters of course.
We have had our water hose get some ice in it in the very late night early morning.
The heat pumps have done very well down into the low thirties though one sounds like a locamotive. hd to replace the front unit and upped the size. When the temps cause the heat pumps to reach their limits the furnaces come on automatically. The rear furnace also heats the tanks.
If it was prolonged cold might have to run the furnaces exclusively. Quiter for sure....the wet bay has some small drain holes as well a clearances for sewer hose and water hose and no insulation. My intent is to run a circuit for a small forced air thermostat statically controlled heater into the area with GFCI of course. The luggage compartment light puts out some heat from the 12 volt bulb as if,,,,,if left on.Before we leave I may have to put a drop light into the wet bay and buy a heated water hose, something we just kept putting off.
The one thing that is not really enough Propane capacity. We ahve pulled up and had to go fill the tank four times. It is supposedly a 38 gallon tank. Maybe the indicator or gauge is not accurate.
We filled it with 28. soemthing gallons when it indicated it was at 1/4 tank and two other times it only took 24 gallons even, once when it said it was about empty.
So having a 100 lb tank delivered and a connector installed would seemingly make sense.
While the front heat pump was otu of commission we ran a small 15 amp 120v forced air heater in the front of the coach and it cued the rear heat pump to cycle off because it was quite warm. Two of them would probably be all the heat needed down into the low twenties and maybe below. However with two circuits can't run tow or the toaster and te heater or the convection oven and heater. I have to reset the button on the Inverter and once the breaker under the bed. Makes no sense where is my second circuit and why would the converter/inverter care on 120 volt ac?
Now if there is a lot of cold moisture the rear heat pump when it cycled off would drip water onto the floor. Our coach is now 15 years old.
