rjxj wrote:
louiskathy wrote:
rjxj wrote:
This is going to be a good one! :)
You mean with all the posts coming from those that do not appreciate lights left on all night? ... yeah.
We don't do anything out of the ordinary... but we have learned that in certain areas of the country ( the SW being one) if you don't have lights on all night long underneath the rig... you've gonna have rodents chewing your wires. We like the LED rope lights.
Don't want to hijack the thread but thanks for reminding me. Ive read the threads about the rodent issue but haven't prepared for it yet. It will be our first year in Arizona. Do you have lights in the engine bay?
We only stayed two nights at Escapees cg between Roswell and Carlsbad NM and we were warned about the pack rats and such that come out of the gulch at night and get into everything. They don't like the lights so just a rope light in the ground was enough to keep our rig safe. It was all we had. Some guys had aluminum hood lights - ya know , those really bright lights that you hang in garages to light up 50 sq feet so bright you don't get shadows... some had 3 of those clamped together and centered under their rigs so that they made a bright circle of light.
Friends of ours that camp hosted in the San Juan Mtns in Colorado (near Telluride and Rico) had big baited rat traps under their hoods. They'd prop the hood open with a square stick and place a trap on the engine at dusk. Caught something every night we were there... chipmucks mostly. They eat wires, too.
