Is the Lance 1121 a four season camper?
We recently looked at a 2002 Lance 1121 and my wife noticed that the waste tank was exposed underneath (great eye). With that she wondered if it was a four season camper. Is it designed for year round...
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As bobndot posted, your wife was NOT seeing the actual holding tank. What she saw was the outside cover that is larger than the actual tank which creates the airspace for the heated air to circulate around the tank itself. Actually, if the inside of the TC is heated, the tank area and water will not freeze anyway until the temp gets well below 20F without even using the TC's furnace but rather an electric heater in the TC itself for heat if you have shorepower.
We do a lot of winter TC camping in Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in Ontario Canada and have for many years with our 3 Lance TC's we've owned since 1988. Other brands of TC's were used before 1988 beginning in 1965. Some CG's are open and have electric and some don't where we go. We don't even think about using the TC furnace which blows heat around the tanks if we have any 110 AC shorepower hookup until the temp outside gets to below 20F and is forcasted to be that or below for 12+ hours. NEVER had any freezing at all. The thing to remember is that the electric heater doesn't actually blow heated air down on the tanks but the warm floor above the tank is enough to keep the tanks from freezing until it really gets cold or cold and there's very high winds. Then you must use the TC furnace. We've used the TC furnace when it's way below zero temps many times (-13F to -20F) for a couple days straight while dry camping when snowmobiling and never had anything on or in the Lance's freeze.
More important to us is the storm windows as they make a huge difference and stop window sweating and cold air off the windows drafts. Easy and cheap to seal/caulk any voids and or cracks you could find in any RV that allow the miserable cold air intrusions. Our Lance TC had been as snug and comfortable as our expensive very well built and insulated home in the winter and what more could you ask for?
We do a lot of winter TC camping in Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in Ontario Canada and have for many years with our 3 Lance TC's we've owned since 1988. Other brands of TC's were used before 1988 beginning in 1965. Some CG's are open and have electric and some don't where we go. We don't even think about using the TC furnace which blows heat around the tanks if we have any 110 AC shorepower hookup until the temp outside gets to below 20F and is forcasted to be that or below for 12+ hours. NEVER had any freezing at all. The thing to remember is that the electric heater doesn't actually blow heated air down on the tanks but the warm floor above the tank is enough to keep the tanks from freezing until it really gets cold or cold and there's very high winds. Then you must use the TC furnace. We've used the TC furnace when it's way below zero temps many times (-13F to -20F) for a couple days straight while dry camping when snowmobiling and never had anything on or in the Lance's freeze.
More important to us is the storm windows as they make a huge difference and stop window sweating and cold air off the windows drafts. Easy and cheap to seal/caulk any voids and or cracks you could find in any RV that allow the miserable cold air intrusions. Our Lance TC had been as snug and comfortable as our expensive very well built and insulated home in the winter and what more could you ask for?
